Gimgamgoo
Mongoose
Hi again,
I'm still feeling like a noob as I've yet to play. I'm reading and re-reading sections of rules as well as the Third Imperium info so I feel like I know what I'm doing when my group start playing.
Having just built a vehicle (the snow vehicle I asked about in a different thread), I was wondering how vehicle damage works.
For example, the snow mobile I decided on, had an armour rating of 2 all round, with 8 hull points.
Now if a someone attacks it with a single hack of a broadsword and hits it, without any extra effect, then it will do 4D damage. On average that's 14 damage. 2 soaked up by the armour, 12 more to the hull which is way more than the vehicle has. So one swipe from a broadsword on my snow mobile, or indeed on a ground car, will totally destroy it.
What also caused me a brain strain, was that if I'm on foot and dive for cover behind a civilian vehicle, I get +10 to my armour, but the vehicle only has armour 2.
I understand how ground weapons and starship weapons are scaled with the x10 or /10 modifiers, but have I missed something similar with vehicles. If not, a single rifle shot or a single broadsword swipe will destroy a vehicle similar to a car with a single average hit.
Thanks for any help (or page references if I've missed something obvious)
I'm still feeling like a noob as I've yet to play. I'm reading and re-reading sections of rules as well as the Third Imperium info so I feel like I know what I'm doing when my group start playing.
Having just built a vehicle (the snow vehicle I asked about in a different thread), I was wondering how vehicle damage works.
For example, the snow mobile I decided on, had an armour rating of 2 all round, with 8 hull points.
Now if a someone attacks it with a single hack of a broadsword and hits it, without any extra effect, then it will do 4D damage. On average that's 14 damage. 2 soaked up by the armour, 12 more to the hull which is way more than the vehicle has. So one swipe from a broadsword on my snow mobile, or indeed on a ground car, will totally destroy it.
What also caused me a brain strain, was that if I'm on foot and dive for cover behind a civilian vehicle, I get +10 to my armour, but the vehicle only has armour 2.
I understand how ground weapons and starship weapons are scaled with the x10 or /10 modifiers, but have I missed something similar with vehicles. If not, a single rifle shot or a single broadsword swipe will destroy a vehicle similar to a car with a single average hit.
Thanks for any help (or page references if I've missed something obvious)
