Rules Questions

[ammulder]

Originally Posted by Parody

If you aren't on fire, vehicular fire extinguishers will not fire automatically. You can use a firing action to try to remove the burn mods, but note that, like a weapon, they can only trigger once per turn. If you fail to put out the mods and start on fire at the end of the turn, you don't get the free chance.

That sounds like the rule I heard about. Do you have a reference or know where it came from? I don't see anything like that in the CWC sections on fire damage or the FE, IFE, or PFE.

[Parody]

Originally Posted by ammulder

That sounds like the rule I heard about. Do you have a reference or know where it came from? I don't see anything like that in the CWC sections on fire damage or the FE, IFE, or PFE.

It's in the ODQ. That particular entry doesn't give a source.

Originally Posted by MattV

I just read the 5th addition fire rules. I like portions of them. I love that more fire markers mean more damage, and I somewhat like the oven rule where no internal components or occupants take damage unless there is a breach. But this does weaken incendiary weapons considerably and I'm not sure that the price/space/weight charts of these weapons would still be inline with other weapons.

SPARK already uses the "no internal damage unless breached" part of the CW5 fire rules. Before, incendiary weapons were luck-based instant kills (less/no luck needed with twin high-temp) unless the defender was completely fireproof. Now they're just very good weapons that we still have to account for in our vehicle designs. CW5-style fire rules are one thing I hope they use in CW6.

YMMV, of course.

[Angrytubist]

Agreed, I think the 5e fire rules were easily the best change in that edition, and should be kept.

[swordtart]

Counter-versy to that would be agree that an internal fires (e.g. ones started by damage to PPs0 shouldn't affect tires or other external components (EWP's, dischargers etc) until they have burned through from the inside out.

[Angrytubist]

I agree, though if the plant was hit by weapons fire, I'm pretty sure it would spread.