Core Update 2022 vs High Guard 2022: Particle Beam Barbettes

[Yenaldlooshi]

High Guard rules state that barbettes get a damage multiplier of x3. This is not mentioned at all in Core for this though the weapon is listed.

If HG is authoritative, then it makes Core damage for PA Barbette's wrong. My experience is that most rules and content are supplemental in HG without contradiction to Core.

Did I miss something in Core? Are the PA Barbette's the same in HG but just you should consider the x3 damage multiplier an errata?

If so, this makes the Harrier a LOT more powerful a commerce raider at the start of Drinax.

 

[AnotherDilbert]

Core is a simplified subset of HG. E.g. there are no Particle turret weapons in Core, hence the PA barbette is better than any turret in Core without a damage multiplier. In HG there are a lot more options, and barbettes needed the damage multiplier to motivate the larger size.

If you care to use HG, then HG is correct.
If don't bother with HG, then Core is correct.
Either way the game works well enough...

 

[Yenaldlooshi]

"If you care to use HG, then HG is correct.
If don't bother with HG, then Core is correct.
Either way the game works well enough..."

yeah, cool I hear ya man, I mean part of me is thinking "pft don't trip, man, it's cool either way, just have fun. play the game. It can be whatever you want" but then my true self, my inner voice... it well...

It SLAPS the hell out of the hippy voice and says; "NEIN! Inkonsistenz ist verboten!!!"

 

[MongooseMatt]

Quick note, this is listed in the FAQ (in our Downloads section of the website), and will be in all subsequent reprints.