Interrupts in vehicle combat

[jec10]

Can anyone please explain (or confirm) interrupts in vehicle combat?

Page 68 Player's Manual says the task to interrupt is
Routine, Movement speed (safe).

And the errata says "the movement DM is always the speed of the interrupting unit".

So, if I have a grav vehicle attempting to interrupt and it is travelling at its NOE speed of 120kph that is a movement speed of 12 sq/hexes - so the DM is +12 and I can always interrupt anything?

 

[aramis]

Can anyone please explain (or confirm) interrupts in vehicle combat?

Page 68 Player's Manual says the task to interrupt is
Routine, Movement speed (safe).

And the errata says "the movement DM is always the speed of the interrupting unit".

So, if I have a grav vehicle attempting to interrupt and it is travelling at its NOE speed of 120kph that is a movement speed of 12 sq/hexes - so the DM is +12 and I can always interrupt anything?

As written, yes. But many house rule it to the speed of the driver.

 

[jec10]

Sorry, Aramis, can you clarify what you mean by "the speed of the driver"?

Won't he be going at the speed of the vehicle?

 

[aramis]

Sorry, Aramis, can you clarify what you mean by "the speed of the driver"?

Won't he be going at the speed of the vehicle?

The speed of the guy driving as an infantryman (IE, 1-4, species dependent) rather than the potentially much higher movement of the vehicle. A slug in a speeder should NOT be getting to interrupt a cat on foot.

 

[Carlobrand]

The speed of the guy driving as an infantryman (IE, 1-4, species dependent) rather than the potentially much higher movement of the vehicle. A slug in a speeder should NOT be getting to interrupt a cat on foot.

The soldier concealed in the brush rises to launch a missile at the passing vehicle - and invariably gets a .50 cal to the chest before he can loose his missile. Yes, I can see where the house rule makes more sense. Under the rules as written, it's pretty much suicide to try that trick.

 

[jec10]

The soldier concealed in the brush rises to launch a missile at the passing vehicle - and invariably gets a .50 cal to the chest before he can loose his missile. Yes, I can see where the house rule makes more sense. Under the rules as written, it's pretty much suicide to try that trick.

Exactly, hence my original question. This just seemed like a broken rule (or at least one DGP only played in sophont-versus-sophont on foot combat).

Of course, in MT he wouldn't have a tac missile, as they got left out! But, an ATRL maybe.