The "Who What" Now?

Infinity has a game inside it that a lot of players do incorrectly.  This has got to stop and this is your Public Service Announcement regarding failures of the "Who What" Now.

Infinity has a problem.  A majority of players come indoctrinated from other tabletop games or board games where your options are limited. Here's a list of Common Skills that every model in the game can do.  There will be a few exceptions; such as, Speculative Fire or Intuitive Fire, which requires the proper armament. Every model can perform:

Activate - Use Scenery
BS Attack - Shoot the Pew Pews
Cautious Move - Move First Half to avoid AROs
CC Attack - Cut Somebody
Change Facing - Spin to Win
Climb - Climb
Coup de Grace - Kill Unconscious Enemy
Discover - Discover Camouflage or Impersonator Markers
Dodge - Avoid Getting Shot
Engage - Get into Melee to Avoid Getting Shot
Idle - Do Nothing
Intuitive Attack - Use Direct Template Weapon on Camouflage or Impersonator Markers
Jump - Jump
Lean Out - Shoot Directly Below
Move - Move
Reset - Avoid Getting Hacked
Speculative Fire - Shoot at unseen enemy
Suppressive Fire - Gain Burst 3 in ARO

Man, when I played Warmachine your options were Move, Attack, Special Attack, Cast, Run or Charge.  Every model in the game only had some of those options.  Worse still, in Infinity, your model can Activate multiple times in a turn.  This requires a lot of communication, especially as you check with your opponent for AROs at each stage of the Activation.  This is the Who part of the "Who What" Now problem, but the Who is not the problem.  It's the What is that gets troublesome.

Ghulam Light Infantry from Haqqislam is supposed to be the most basic model in the faction.  Too bad that's a house of lies.  A Ghulam Light Infantry is equipped with a Rifle, Light Shotgun, Pistol and Knife.  Therein likes the What problem of Infinity.  What weapon are you using? Is it your Rifle, your Light Shotgun or your Pistol?  N3 has exacerbated the problem in that it made the Shotgun and Pistol good, so now these are options.  Then you have a problem with more complex models.

At least you didn't get a Roller Coaster

Fire Selection is far more widespread due to the massive points discount MULTI Weaponry and Missiles have received.  Not only do you need to select a weapon, you'd need to select an ammo type.  This is important because if you have access to Templates, then you strip your opponent of ARM.  That's the trouble with the Missile Launcher, Blast Mode is 14 Damage that ignores Armor provided by Cover but Antitank Mode is AP to halve that ARM.  If your target has 4 or so Armor, it might not be immediately obvious which ammo type you'd use.  Neglect to this can lead to some confusion of whether your models are alive or dead and I ain't no theoretical physicist.

These scenarios are not that far fetched, as I see many a time where it's unclear which weapon or mode is optimal and therefore used.  If someone were to Engage an Asura in Melee and her Second Half was "Shoot" I wouldn't know what they meant.  Shoot with what? Pistol is a good option this close and do they mean to use their Pistol as a CC Weapon? Their Nanopulser is an auto-hit which means the Aleph player doesn't need to rely on rolling dice, they might be fine with a trade especially if the Asura is a full health.

If this Asura has a MULTI Rifle, the problem is further exacerbated.  With what Ammo? If the target is Armor 4 and Dogged or NWI, then all the options are viable.  AP to punch through that Armor, Shock to kill them outright but less chance to Wound and Double Action to give the highest possibility of scoring a Wound.  This is also problematic with all of the Blast or Antitank/Hit modes on Missile Launchers or Plasma. Antitank has AP, Hit does higher damage.  Blast ignores Cover ARM Bonus.

"I Shoot with my Ghulam's LSG."
"I Shoot with Hit Mode with Carbine."
"I use DA on ARO."
"I won't oppose by firing a Nanopulser."

So, please answer "Who What" preemptively for your opponent.  There's no "I Shoot". It's "I Shoot with a [Insert Violence Machine Here][with Applicable Ammo]".