Vehicle Combat example scenario + discussion

[herr_phil]

I put together a little vehiclular combat scenario pitting a modern Grav tank against a well updated track tank. I wanted to make one post of it but it was just too long so I made it a PDF to check out. It's got a good mix of what's in the book as well as my own assumptions which I hope will be corrected if I'm misinterpreting something. In all I think it came out well and will provide a foundation for a more complex encounter later.

Tank Battle

 

[McPerth]

Quite an informative example, even for someone not involved in T5 like me.

Just one comment, though:

If I read well your explainings, the pen damage doubles against armor, and for easiness you just halve the armor. If so, they you should not halve again the hits over armor to see the damage, as they have not been doubled.

Example, the first hit that overcomes armor:

The second damage roll on the tracked tank (page 2, second paragraph of your PDF):

Roll is 42. so 4 over the tanks armor (38). You claim that as this damage is only doubled against armor, you must divide it by 2 once armor has been overcome, so giving 2 damage

See that if you doubled the damage roll instead of halving the armor, this would have been a 84 roll against Ar=76, so overcoming it by 8 (reduced to 4, as it only doubles against armor).

Is this right?

 

[herr_phil]

My understanding is that damage is counted double only for penetration. Actual damage would be whatever leaked through but is not doubled. So 30 armor, 24 pen damage would mean 48 total penetration against 30 armor leaving 18 leftover damage, halved because we doubled the damage for the penetration earlier. I am going to have to reread it more carefully though, I think you are right.