One of the really appealing aspects of Cyberpunk 2020 is the cinematic

nature of combat. To be sure combat is gritty and dangerous - but also very
visual. With two of my players unavailable tonight I ran the other two
through a couple CP2020 combats. We whipped up characters usig the Friday
Night Firefight quick generation rules from the 2013 boxed set, and armed
and armored them using the quick and dirty expendables chart in the 2020
core book.

Chris - armed with a HK MP2013 10mm light submachine gun and wearing a
heavy armored jacket.

Jon - armed with a 11mm heavy handgun and also wearing a heavy armored
jacket.

versus

Fred - armed with an FN-RAL 7.62mm battle rifle and wearing medium
armored jacket.

The set up was random. Fred was positioned on the east sidewalk of a city
avenue, about two storefronts north of the corner with the cross street. Chris
and Jon are 20m south-west, they are crossing the cross street on the other
side of the avenue, about 4m from the curb. Neither group is in cover when
initiative is called.

Fred gets the drop and emptied the RAL's magazine at the two at a range of
20m. 9rds strike home, 5 on Jon and 4 on Chris.The first round is absorbed by
Jons jacket, but the next round causes a serious wound to Jon's unarmored
right leg. The following three rounds all compromise the jacket's kevlar weave
and drill into Jon's torso. Jon falls to the pavement stunned with potentially
mortal wounds. Chris is hit in the left leg, right arm, and twice in the torso.
The leg wound is minor. The hit to the right arm penetrates the jackets kevlar
layers but inflicts minor damage. The two torso hits are more serious - both
penetrate and inflict serious founds. Despite these critical wounds, Chris is
able to return fire with a long burst from the HK. Fred is still in the open and
takes 8 10mm slugs. 1st round hits Fred right in the noggin - his skull
ruptures like a ripe watermel on - instantly fatal. The next round binds up in
the armor over Fred's torso, the third strikes the femoral in his left thigh,
followed by a round that traumatically amputated the leg above the knee.
two more rounds drill into the left leg, followed by one to the right and a final
hit to the bloody stump of the left thigh.

3.2 seconds have elapsed.

Originally I'd planned to have two gunmen, but seeing the extreme havoc
that the battle rifle caused I decided to just have one assailant. Barney did
show up for a later bar fight. Fred was taken right out and Barney, though
unable to cause any significant damage to either Chris or Jon - was able to
absord a great many hits before being KO'd. I think we went about 6 rounds
in the hand-to-hand... ~20 seconds.