FGMP and radiation?

[Mark A. Siefert]

From the SRD on FGMPs:

Those without radiation protection who are nearby when a FGMP is fired will suffer a lethal dose of radiation – each firing of an FGMP emits 2d6×20 rads, which will affect everyone within the immediate vicinity.

Dumb question: Does that include the firer? I always assumed that Traveller canon that the higher TL fusion guns could be fired without the need battledress. Has this changed for the new rules?

 

[tneva82]

From the SRD on FGMPs:

Those without radiation protection who are nearby when a FGMP is fired will suffer a lethal dose of radiation – each firing of an FGMP emits 2d6×20 rads, which will affect everyone within the immediate vicinity.

Dumb question: Does that include the firer? I always assumed that Traveller canon that the higher TL fusion guns could be fired without the need battledress. Has this changed for the new rules?

Well. I would say firer is pretty nearby to the weapon when it is fired :wink:

Better carry battledress or some other form of radiation protection if you wish to use it.

 

[Dirk Desiato]

Yep, PGMP/FGMPs are scary. I'm thinking of keeping what I have done with CT and give them (very) limited shots instead of the ( :shock: ) unlimited blasts that they have. This keeps them in the "support" category along with missile launchers and rapid-fire grenade launchers and other weapons that are overkill vs troops (even troops in battledress!).

 

[EDG]

I'm not entirely sure how a zillion-degree bolt of plasma is really much less irradiating (or causes less environmental damage) than a zillion-degree bolt of fusing plasma - or much less blinding, for that matter...!

 

[CosmicGamer]

Yes, certainly I think most would agree that it includes the firer.

I know very little about canon other than what I've picked up on the forums. I believe you are not required to wear Battle Dress - just protection, however part of the reason lower tech weapons "required" Battledress was because they did not include recoil suppression and Battledress helps compensate for the recoil and Mass. Do I have this right?

 

[Myrm]

I asked this a while back. Collectively we could not come up with a definition of 'immediate vicinity' from previous editions from memory.

The general consensus was that the intention was to affect the entire path of flight of the fusion reaction from firer to target, but that it might be a pain to resolve