Spartan159
Banded Mongoose
Where are they? Looking for personal combat, but I'm curious about space combat too. (Just how hard is it to hit a fighter or drop ship?)
Size modifiers in combat
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Some creatures are given the traits "Small -X" or "Large +X" (Page 85 of the revised book, not sure about the first printing), which affects DMs for ranged attacks.
You get a bonus to hit a vehicle based on its size (Page 140) when attacking as infantry or from another vehicle.
Spacecraft vs vehicles (or infantry) also have hit modifiers - but the damage scale is also different (Page 167).
Also, vehicle weapons have a much longer range than infantry weapons, and spacecraft weapons operate on another scale altogether; if the spacecraft uses that range advantage then your chance to hit it from a vehicle will generally be zero.
The relative size of spacecraft generally doesn't matter because of the distances/scale involved. Some specific capital-grade starship weapons (covered in High Guard) do take penalties to hit small targets, but that doesn't affect the rest of a ship's arsenal.
You get a bonus to hit a vehicle based on its size (Page 140) when attacking as infantry or from another vehicle.
Spacecraft vs vehicles (or infantry) also have hit modifiers - but the damage scale is also different (Page 167).
Also, vehicle weapons have a much longer range than infantry weapons, and spacecraft weapons operate on another scale altogether; if the spacecraft uses that range advantage then your chance to hit it from a vehicle will generally be zero.
The relative size of spacecraft generally doesn't matter because of the distances/scale involved. Some specific capital-grade starship weapons (covered in High Guard) do take penalties to hit small targets, but that doesn't affect the rest of a ship's arsenal.
Condottiere
Emperor Mongoose
High Guard deals with size penalties against spacecraft, for various weapon systems.
Though, now I'm curious for sub ten tonnes.
Though, now I'm curious for sub ten tonnes.
Spartan159
Banded Mongoose
Thanks, this is exactly what I needed! 
