(Answered) MechWarrior Death

[wildkadabra]

I was reading the BattleTech Manual 2020 and I was reading the section for Destroying a Mech. Something that drew my attention is that if the Center Torso is not destroyed my AE damage or by an ammo explosion, the MechWarrior does not automatically die.

I would like some clarification on this. Is there a chance for the MechWarrior to die even so? Should a roll be done to see the MechWarrior's ultimate fate? Or does he always survive unless some other condition that would kill the Warrior would also happen in combination to this?

[Xotl]

There's no specific special chance of the Mechwarrior to die this way; if you want to institute one, go ahead as a house rule.  Such an extra roll would be more along the lines of campaign / roleplaying territory, rather than the hard and fast rules of the board game. 

[wildkadabra]

Yes, I was asking because me and my friend were playing the Chaos Campaign and wanted to know if there was a way to determine what would happen in this case. Thank you for the reply!  :thumbsup: