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Penetration: Clarification needed

Hi all.

I am hoping someone out there can clarify for me some issues I have figuring out how weapon penetration is supposed to work.

I understand the principle in general; that penetration is the amount of damage dice lost for each point of armor that the attack has to pass through.

Thus a weapon with say damage 10 and penetration 2 at a certain range firing upon a target with an armor value of 3 would lose 6 (pen 2 * armor 3 ) dice to the armor, leaving 4 (10 damage - 6 lost) dice to come through to the body.

I hope so far I am right.

Now comes what boggles me. If I open the TNE Core book to pg. 355 and look at the statistics of the High-Energy weapons (Plasma and Fusion rifles) I can see that their Penetration values actually get lower at higher ranges...

( example. Plasma Rifle-12 has damage 9 and Pen values of 9-4-1 )

... this to me looks as if the rifle above will lose 9 * armor from it's damage at short range, 4 * armor at medium range, and 1 * armor at long range.

This doesn't seem to make any sense.. or does it? Is anyone out there that can help me figure out what they mean there?

Best regards,
Ivar
 
Penetration

The table you're reading has an error. It's giving PV instead of PR. PV = DV / PR for a given range.

All plasma weapons have PR of 1-2-10 and fusion weapons have a PR of 1/2-1-4. These are the numbers to use against people.

Hope this helps.
 
There is actually errata for that too. From the "Putting the Heat back into Plasma" article in one of the later TNE era Challenge Magazines, and also in Striker 2, all plasma and Fusion weapons now have a Penetration rating of 1-2-10.
 
My mistake.

I even dragged out Challenge 76 to double check and found the new numbers for plasma, but missed the changes to fusion.
 
On a related matter the TNE Vehicles book (I can't remember what it was called but it covered basically military vehicles) gave the TNE ratings for the fusion X,Y and Z guns (Power, RoF, firing chambers etc). Does anyone know if the plasma A,B and Cs were given similar coverage anywhere?
 
On a related matter the TNE Vehicles book (I can't remember what it was called but it covered basically military vehicles) gave the TNE ratings for the fusion X,Y and Z guns (Power, RoF, firing chambers etc). Does anyone know if the plasma A,B and Cs were given similar coverage anywhere?

It was the Regency Combat Vehicle Guide. I don't remember any mention of plasma A,B,C in anything from GDW.
 
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