Vehicle Damage and Critical Hits

[allanimal]

Critical hits in both the starship combat and vehicle combat rules are caused whe the effect of an attack is 6 or greater.

Starship combat also has the sustained damage rule: "A ship will suffer a severity 1 critical hit everytime it loses 10% (rounded up) of its starting hull."

I'm not seeing anything like this in the vehicle combat section. Am I missing it? Should it be there?

 

[Jeraa]

It may be intentional that the rule is missing from vehicles. They have a lot fewer hull points, so critical hit would occur far too often against them.

A standard air/raft has 16 hull points, and would take a critical hit if it took 2 points of damage (4, counting armor). ATV would be 6 (12 with armor).

Edit: Though small craft do have few hull points on their end of the scale as well, so that probably isn't a good enough reason. It may be because, with some ships having such large numbers of hull points, it gives a way to potentially disable the ship instead of having to slowly poke it to death. Vehicles (usually) wouldn't have that problem.

 

[MongooseMatt]

No, it only applies to ships.

That said, if you have created a setting where super heavy vehicles are the norm, it may be worth adding!