05-26-2022, 09:23 PM | #1 |
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Reactive Armor
High Tech has a few weapons that note having Dual Stage shape charge warheads -- notably the Javelin.
But I can not find any rules for how reactive Armor works. Reactive Armor blocks, as well as slat armor is becoming common place on the modern battlefield. Does anyone know if Reactive Armor has been setup in 4e (I seem to remember it in Vehicles in 3e), and if so, where? --C |
05-26-2022, 09:31 PM | #2 | |
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05-26-2022, 10:00 PM | #3 | |
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Unfortunately while HT discusses MS-HEAT warheads it doesn't discuss reactive armour. UT has Reactive Armour Paste, but it doesn't behave quite the same way that reactive armour blocks should.
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05-26-2022, 11:03 PM | #4 | |
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A handy article on how slat, bar, and cage armours work is https://www.tanknology.co.uk/post/statistical-armour GURPS tends to have trouble with armours which work on a principle other than imposing hard mass between projectile and target, such as Whipple Shields. For good reasons, its armour rules start with the kinds of armour which matter in a sword fight or gun fight, not X-ray lasers at 2 light seconds or shaped charges at 2 km. And the way shaped charges work, or ultra-high-speed impacts work, are estoeric and counterintuitive.
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05-26-2022, 11:22 PM | #5 |
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05-27-2022, 02:58 AM | #6 |
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Re: Reactive Armor
While not office, here's my current rules for handling reactive armor. However it is meant for TL 9+ settings.
http://gurb3d6.blogspot.com/2016/10/...ary-armor.html Something more TL 8 like Kontact V would have DR 500 vs HEAT and piercing damage (with a level of hardened vs HEAT) and DR against everything else. Weighs ~ 60lbs and cost ~$100 per square foot of coverage.
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