Concussion and personal armour; a TNE rules query...

[Traveller_without_a_home]

Hello everyone,

Just wondering if anyone can help a simpleton (me) figure something out?

In situations of concussion damage vs. personal armour, how do you figure out what happens? Say hypothetically you have a character wearing armour, and a grenade goes off near them; what happens? I’m fine with the fragmentation effects, but unsure how concussion is effected by armour... is it?

Could any kind soul provide an example?

Thanks a bunch!!!

 

[Zparkz]

if I do not remember wrong, if the armor is sealed like battledress or in many cases combat armor (also called combat environment suit if sealed) the wearer takes no damage.

Normal armor like flack jackets and so on gives no protection against concussion.

The first example does howver show some short comming in the rules. Most hand grenades or smaller warheads would probably not do much more than rattling the wearer. However, the rules do not cover when larger warheads are being used.
At one point a battledress would be torn apart from the blast.