MgT Vehicle Handbook PDF Chapter 2 Design Example Step 4

[snrdg121408]

Late morning PST,

MgT Vehicle Handbook PDF downloaded 2/21/17 Chapter 2 Design Example Step 4 p. 9

According Step 4 the Honey Badger has 8 Points of Protection to be allocated Front, Sides, and Rear according to Chapter 4 Armor. Chapter 4 references Traveller Core Rulebook that indicates that the vehicle's roof gets half the protection value of sides and the vehicle's bottom gets half the protection value of rear. Chapter 4 indicates that the Points of Protection for the roof or bottom of the vehicle is rounded down.

Looking at the filled in Vehicle Sheet I see that the Front Protection is 10; Rear is 6, and the Sides are 8.

Where did the Honey Badger get 16 additional Protection Points?

 

[EldritchFire]

The armour value isn't total armour, it's armour per facing. An armour rating of 8 means 8 armour front, 8 sides, and 8 rear. You can then move the armour around a bit. In the example, the rear armour was reduced by 2 to increase the front by 2 (8 - 2 = 6; 8 + 2 = 10).

 

[AnotherDilbert]

Core, p134: Unless otherwise stated, all vehicles will use half the value of their side armour against attacks on the roof

This a default value, you can design you vehicles any way you like.

 

[snrdg121408]

Hello EldritchFire and AnotherDilbert,

Thank you EldritchFire for clearing up how the Honey Badger's Armor Protection Points add up to 24 rather than 8. This is my first foray into using anything other than High Guard. So the 8 Protection Points is per side not the total.

Thank you AnotherDilbert for the clarification that the MgT Traveller Core Rulebook's PDF reference of

"Vehicle Armour
Even on dedicated military vehicles, the roof and floor tend to be weak points in their structure that a canny enemy can exploit. Unless otherwise stated, all vehicles will use half the value of their side armour against attacks on the roof, and half the value of their rear armour against attacks on the floor."

from MgT Vehicle Handbook PDF on p. 35 of

"The Protection armour provides a vehicle is used for any attacks that come from the front, sides or rear (see Traveller Core Rulebook page 134). A vehicle that is attacked from the top or bottom (such as an attack launched from a rooftop or the vehicle travelling over a mine) has its Protection halved, rounding down.

and p. 36

"If a vehicle has no separate top or bottom armour listed in its description, assume they are equal to the value of the side facing."

are default values.

Does that me that the actual armor allocation without breaking the 8 points up be Front 8, Sides 8, Rear 8, Top/Bottom 4?