On 04/22/2014 12:13 PM, Onno Meyer wrote:
Brandon replied to me:
> HEAT makes a small hole and at TL8+ it probably won't start a fire.
But it can punch a hole in a fusion reactor or NPU, neither of which
is good.
Not good, certainly, but there could be multiple reactors and reserve
power cells. If you take a look at the 3E damage rules, a TL10 or TL11
AFV should be able to survive a few hundred points of damage -- surely
a mission kill, but it should be able to limp home. The worst would be
hits on the main weapon or a crew station.
Shouldn't a TL10 missile be able to carry something like a shaped charge
fusion implosion warhead? Not a fission/fusion explosion, but a forced
fusion explosion pushed by conventional explosives and capacitors
driving a magnetic confinement field.
I'm pretty sure that was in a GURPS book, but I may be vaguely recalling
another piece of science fiction. If so, my apologies.
But anyway, something like that ought to be able to do a lot more than a
few hundred points of damage.
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