Newb Question Regarding Armours

[Marachai]

I'm new to Traveller and was hoping I could get a clarification on the Armour value from the main rule book. Two of the armours get a specific value versus lasers .. So does this mean that all the other armours have 0 versus lasers, or their listed value ?

I got confused because when I read descriptions of the armours, it sounds like alot of them are built only to stop bullets. So I wasnt sure what, if any armours get their value against energy.

Thanks for any help / insights

 

[Rikki Tikki Traveller]

Don't have the book in front of me, but I think if only one value is listed it applies to ALL weapons equally.

If 2 values are listed, one is for Kinetic weapons (guns and swords) and the other is for Energy weapons (lasers and FGMPs).

Reflec is a special type of armour that is basically worthless against a gun or sword but very useful against Lasers.

 

[AndrewW]

Only two armours in the core rulebook have a specific value against lasers. Both of those uses the first value for everything except lasers and the listed value agains lasers. All others use the value against all types of weapons.

 

[snrdg121408]

Howdy Marachai and Rikki Tikki Traveller,

Looking at the rules and from experince with CT, MT, and GT I'd say that lasers are treated similar to the kenetic weapons for all armor/armour classes except Reflec and Ablat. Reflec and Ablat are designed to handle laser fire. Of course I could be all wet, but for a retired Navy submarine sailor that is a normal event. :lol: