EnglishInquisition
09-05-2010, 04:14 PM
Had one of those moments today, one of those where you go "hang on a minute......... does that mean....?"
Totally playing devils advocate here, and I've never seen it crop up in a game, OR even been discussed before so here goes: If an attack on a vehicle is made by an 'AP -' weapon it suffers a -1 to the Vehicle damage table.
If an attack is made by say a Marine, and they manage to glance/penetrate the armour, do they incur the -1 penalty as neither a close combat attack or a grenade has an AP value?
It does say in the characteristics section at the beginning of the rulebook that if a profile has no value then it is considered to be '0', or sometimes written as '-'
Have we been playing this wrong or do people actually play this way?
It would certainly make vehicles more durable against mundane attacks from infantry, as even marines trying to load out with lots of attacks and hoping to overwhelm a vehicle with glancing hits would incur a -3 on the vehicle damage chart. This means they would be more likely to then opt for the krak grenade attack at S6, which lets face it, is what they are meant to do!
Like I say, never been a problem in my gaming group, just one of those thoughts!
Thoughts anyone?
Totally playing devils advocate here, and I've never seen it crop up in a game, OR even been discussed before so here goes: If an attack on a vehicle is made by an 'AP -' weapon it suffers a -1 to the Vehicle damage table.
If an attack is made by say a Marine, and they manage to glance/penetrate the armour, do they incur the -1 penalty as neither a close combat attack or a grenade has an AP value?
It does say in the characteristics section at the beginning of the rulebook that if a profile has no value then it is considered to be '0', or sometimes written as '-'
Have we been playing this wrong or do people actually play this way?
It would certainly make vehicles more durable against mundane attacks from infantry, as even marines trying to load out with lots of attacks and hoping to overwhelm a vehicle with glancing hits would incur a -3 on the vehicle damage chart. This means they would be more likely to then opt for the krak grenade attack at S6, which lets face it, is what they are meant to do!
Like I say, never been a problem in my gaming group, just one of those thoughts!
Thoughts anyone?