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(Answered) Vehicle ammo explosions and one-shot weapons
« on: 23 June 2012, 08:49:10 »
By TW p. 194, an "Ammunition" critical hit on a combat vehicle causes all ammunition carried to explode and/or be lost. Is that intended to also apply to the ammunition of one-shot weapons such as rocket launchers (which is normally treated as part of the -- generally still non-explosive -- weapon rather than a separate item by the rules otherwise)? A literal reading would suggest so...
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Re: Vehicle ammo explosions and one-shot weapons
« Reply #1 on: 23 June 2012, 11:07:36 »
No. We've ruled before that OS weapons technically don't have ammunition. On a BattleMech, OS weapons cannot explode from Heat, and if they're critted they do not explode either. It would be the same on vehicles.
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Re: Vehicle ammo explosions and one-shot weapons
« Reply #2 on: 23 June 2012, 11:49:47 »
Good to know. MegaMek does as of this writing include rocket launcher ammunition and the like in its handling of vehicle ammo explosions, and before I turned in a bug report or maybe even tried my own hand at fixing that behavior I wanted to be sure I wasn't simply misunderstanding the rules myself.

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