MT armor and HG

[DonM]

Was there ever an official (or even semi-official or quasi-official) mapping of HG armor (0 to F) to MT armor (0=40, obviously)?

I thought for sure I'd seen this somewhere, but I can't find it, and it is bugging my brain...

 

[DonM]

Never mind... I found what I was looking for in the Striker errata pile. I knew I'd seen this recently.

 

[Major B]

Don, IIRC there was also a mention in the starship design example about every 3 points above 40 in MT armor being equal to 1 point in HG.

Hope memory serves as I don't have my copy handy...

 

[DonM]

I looked at the example, couldn't find anything. If you can identify that reference, that would be great...

 

[Major B]

I looked at the example, couldn't find anything. If you can identify that reference, that would be great...

Don, I just found a handwritten note I made to remind me about answering this question.

I hope late is better than never...

The reference I was thinking of is on page two of v2.02 of the MT Starship Design Example. It doesn't explicitly state a rule, but I copied the section below:

Step 8 tells us all starships need a minimum armor value of 40. We want to put a small amount of extra armor on the design since the original in TCS had one point of extra armor. When we get to step 9, Armor, we select the basic value of 43. Notice that this entry has a modifier of 43.6. So, according to step 10, Weight and Price, we have:

I've always taken this to mean that 3 points of armor in MT equals one point of armor in CT, but now that I've looked again it appears to be more of a SWAG than a rule.

 

[DonM]

I found what I needed a while back.

Thanks!