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thrash · 02-05-2018, 08:18 PM

I'm drawing a blank: was there ever a detailed treatment of animals as combatants in Striker? Maybe in Challenge or White Dwarf?

Rule 45 discusses only the use of animals for transportation. Animal weapons (horns, etc.) appear in the melee weapons table. I'm not seeing anything that says how to attack them or apply damage, however. The regular damage tables distinguish between personnel, weapons, and vehicles, but it's not clear to me that a horse (or turkey, or T. rex, for that matter) should be as easy to damage as a person or hovercraft, even after accounting for armor factor.

02-05-2018, 08:18 PM	#1
thrash Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: traveller	Animals in Striker I'm drawing a blank: was there ever a detailed treatment of animals as combatants in Striker? Maybe in Challenge or White Dwarf? Rule 45 discusses only the use of animals for transportation. Animal weapons (horns, etc.) appear in the melee weapons table. I'm not seeing anything that says how to attack them or apply damage, however. The regular damage tables distinguish between personnel, weapons, and vehicles, but it's not clear to me that a horse (or turkey, or T. rex, for that matter) should be as easy to damage as a person or hovercraft, even after accounting for armor factor.