Megatraveller Melee Question: What is Block?

[Rerednaw]

On the tables for weapons, hand to hand weapons have a block rating. I can't seem to find out what the block rating does.

Not to mention they are missing for some weapons as well.

Anyone know what the block rating means?

Thanks.

Cheers.

 

[Blue Ghost]

I seem to recall it was short hand for the task roll in Mega Traveller. Said rolls were assigned a subjective die roll by the adventure author or GM, and the player(s) had to roll higher than the number on, I belive, three dice.

Then again, I could be completely wrong.

 

[T. Foster]

It's a carryover from Striker: the Block value is used as a negative DM for melee attacks made against a person using that weapon to defend with. Where the task description on p.69 refers to "weapon defense" it means Block value.

As for the weapons without Block values, that is (surprise, surprise) errata. The missing values are Sword - 3, Cutlass - 2, Broadsword - 2. NOTE: If you're trying to play MT without incorporating the errata you're making things a lot harder for yourself -- it runs many pages long and is available for download somewhere at downport.com. I very highly recommend tracking it down.