We need some serious help understanding the personal combat rules for TNE. This
may have been discussed before, but I wasn't here. Here's our questions:
1.) How exactly does the penetration rules for small arms work? Is there som
e kind of error? If the rules and the weapons charts are correct, any weapon wi
th a PEN of 1 and DAM of 1 can't penetrate any armor! An example: the 10mm Auto
Snub with HEAP has a DAM of 2 and a PEN of 2-2-2. It cannot penetrate any armor
with a AV of 1, even though it's supposed to be armor piercing! Are we misunder
standing these rules? Also. lasers have a PEN of Nil. If we are understanding t
hese rules correctly. a laser can't penetrate any armor better than Plate from
the Body Armor Protection Table (p. 359)! This just doesn't seem right!
2. Where is Reflec Armor? It was in both previous versions of Traveller. If
it DID (or DOES) exist, what would it's stats be?
3. The autofire rules seem oriented toward spray fire. What would you sugges
t for directing a burst at a SINGLE target? (IMpossible seems a bit severe.)
Answers would be greatly appreciated; my campaign is literally about to
crash due to player discontent.