Greetings all,
So I did a search on these forums for motive systems, and vehicle armour to try and find an answer to this question and was unable to find any mention of it. Sorry if I missed something.
Anyway.
I'm curious to know the rules/interpretations out there for how people handle hits to vehicle motive systems.
At one point in the Core Rulebook (p 275, Table 8-24: Vehicle Hit Locations) Motive systems are described as "... often quite fragile, regardless of the type of vehicle..."
Does regular "armour facing" protect the motive systems?
I might argue that it doesn't, in the case of say, a called shot against the front tire of an ork buggy. I'm not sure what kind of armour most wheeled vehicles use, but I doubt it is as thick on the wheels.
I could understand the argument that maybe a Sentinel's legs would possibly use the appropriate facing, or maybe always the 'back' facing as if they had been attacked from the top or bottom (also p275 CRB). Or even a tracked vehicle taking a motive shot from the side being protected, but less so from the front or back?
How do people handle this? In a game I was running a player nailed an Ork buggy in the front wheel with a maximal plasma gun shot as above, and I ruled it went straight to structural integrity and critical, and resulted in the vehicle flipping over its front end or something like that, which was awesome, but I may have been giving a bit more damage than was appropriate.
Curious how OW vet GMs handle these types of situations.
Thanks in advance.