Cannon Golem

[AZhobbit]

Just curious is their cannon attack vs. Touch AC since a cannon is essentially a giant firearm? Doubt it, but man would this be fun, make them high level gunslingers quake.

[Matthew Pittard]

Is this the monster I looked at to realise that it couldn't actually reload it's own cannon? I didnt see any power it had that would enable it to reload faster.

Or do the Cannon balls have an infinte supply with the chamber?

[Kyle Baird]

It has 20 cannon balls in its clip. After firing, it's a swift action to fire again (so it can fire twice in a round). To add a cannon ball to the clip (e.g. it fires every round for 10 rounds), it must spend a standard action per cannon ball.

One could argue that since it's a firearm and has a range increment of 100-ft, that anything within that range is a touch attack.

[Duane Bordelon]

How does it get two attacks a round. I know it says it does, but I can't seem to figure out its actions in a round. It takes a swift action to reload, but yo only get one swift a round, so how does it reload twice a round?

[My Self]

Duane Bordelon wrote:

How does it get two attacks a round. I know it says it does, but I can't seem to figure out its actions in a round. It takes a swift action to reload, but yo only get one swift a round, so how does it reload twice a round?

It doesn't. On some turns, it already has a cannonball loaded, so it fires using its BAB, reloads as a swift, then uses its iterative to shoot, too.

[Shadowlords]

Duane Bordelon wrote:

How does it get two attacks a round. I know it says it does, but I can't seem to figure out its actions in a round. It takes a swift action to reload, but yo only get one swift a round, so how does it reload twice a round?

but then coming up on its next turn it has an empty barrel must spend a swift action to reload and fire the first attack but cannot reload again using a swift action as it already used it.

[alexd1976]

It's poorly written.

They say it gets two shots per round, it has an ammo capacity of 20, it takes a standard action to put a ball in the 'clip'.

Ignore the rest.

[My Self]

On its first turn, it can shoot twice, all subsequent turns it takes a single shot unless you break its gun.