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There's a particular sentence that caught me off regarding clips on Page 85, which states that:

Some artifact-guns have a clip that holds several rounds, letting you fire again and again without reloading. You don’t need to keep track of how many bullets remain in the clip – just assume it lasts until the end of the combat.

How does this work exactly? Because rules as written, an artifact firearm (let's say a revolver, which usually holds 6 rounds) practically has infinite firepower until the end of combat. In addition, the next page under "Full-Auto Fire", implies that we actually do track ammunition for artifacts, which confuses me even more. Bearing in mind such firearms don't even have guidelines for how many cartridges they can store in their magazines.

Any thoughts? Or am I overthinking an abstracted mechanic here?

Thanks.

When you fire a gun in MYZ you spend one bullet. If the weapon doesn't have a clip, you have to reload the weapon in order to shoot again. Scrap guns are one bullet weapons, you shoot and then you have to reload the weapon so you can shoot again. Weapons that have clips (i.e. artifact weapons), you don't need to reload after you shoot. You still spend a bullet when you shoot. The game doesn't have any rules for how many bullets a clip have because ammo is (or should be) so rare in the MYZ world so you never have that many of them.

When it comes to Full-Auto, yes you first spend a bullet as you always do, then you can spend another bullet to push the dice and you can do this until you run out of bullets.

Well with Full Auto you can only push until:
1) you run out of bullets
2) you run out of dice
3) your gun breaks
4) you break
One of the above WILL happen unless you decide to stop beforehand. M:Y0 is more of an abstract game than say Twilight 2000 or D20 Modern and as such doesn’t worry about clip/magazine size. Just like a single ration of food & water per day is no where near enough to sustain a mutant performing hard labor.

This definitely clears it up. Regarding the magazine capacity, if it ever comes up in-game, it should be trivial to rule out how much it can store.

Anyway, thanks guys!