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How do you handle melee combat with a materialized spirit? I just want to be sure I figured it the right way...

BBB says you can use Willpower as a combat skill (with no combat pool). Does it mean that when you roll your Willpower, the spirit gets a counterattack as in regular melee combat? Pretty hard (which is the way it should be , I know). If it scores a hit, the spirit takes ( Charisma)M damage it can only resist with its Force.
Otherwise, it is regular combat with the Immunity to Normal Weapon power, combat pool dice and all that jazz, right?

For ranged combat, spirits get Armor equal to twice their Force. But how do you handle automatic fire? It seems pretty easy to blast a spirit under Force 5 if you ask me...take a Force 4 Elemental. If you blast it with an assault rifle (8M so it can inflict damage since the astral bugger got 8 pt of Immunity) firing a 6-round burst, your spirit must roll against 6D damage (14-8=6)...not much chance it can live to tell the tale...

Am I right or mistaken here?