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Can someone please tell me which CORE rule book has the information on how reactive armor reduces or stops or in any effects artillery hits on units, be it mechs, vehicles or even a building equipped with reactive armor?

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Sorry, but I have no clue. I'm honestly lost in the new core books.

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Tactical Operations P: 282.

I can see the potential if it ever comes to MWO and the moans on the MWO forum.

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I am just not seeing Artillery strikes being affected by the reactive armor, it doesn't makes since. And given that reactive armor is nothing more then blocks of armor reacts in some way to the impact of a weapon to reduce the damage done to the vehicle being protected. It is most effective in protecting against shaped charges and specially hardened long rod penetrators. Not seeing how artillery even falls into this kind of hit unless used in a direct fire mode similar to normal ACs, Gauss rifles etc...

Now my question also is how is Battletech portraying Reactive Armor? It explosive reactive armor (ERA) or self-limiting explosive reactive armor (SLERA), non-energetic reactive armor (NERA), non-explosive reactive armor (NxRA), and electric reactive armor? Or something totally different?

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I don't know.

What amazes me is that reactive armor doesn't work against both missiles AND autocannons...it has never made sense to me that it only works against one...

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The idea that it can work against artillery is baffling to me also. In all reality, even for Battletech, it should work against missiles as well as autocannons.

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I simply think the new armours were built to counter an opposite attach rock-paper-scissors style, and have a corresponding weakness that makes the specialty armour only useful against specific enemies. I don't think logic comes into it sadly. The new tech is predominately not an improvement just more optional trade offs.

In real life, a direct arty hit on most vehicles will kill the vehicle, period, and "almost counts" arty bursts against vehicles often result at least in mobility kills. This includes MBT's; there are very few vehicles that can survive a near miss from 152 or 155mm HE, let alone direct hits, and reactive armor is zero help against such damage. In fact, an arty blast will likely set off ALL the reactive armor on the exposed facing, not just one brick, in which case the reactive armor could actually become a self-inflicted threat. Never forget that reactive armor basically is a controlled explosion set off right against your REAL armor. And THAT, in short, is why reactive armor shouldn't work against arty in game.

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Leon Shirow, does reactive armor reduce by half explosive autocannon shells or explosive machine gun shells, or MechForce Quarterly explosive Gauss Rifle shells?

could a flamer attack in theory destroy way more reactive armor points per ton mounted on a unit/structure than same tonnage standard armor mounted on a unit/structure? seems like a flamer attack would spread the flame shot all on the armor to explode many of the reactive armor's shaped charges (i suppose bigger units wouldn't lose more armor points proportionally since a flamer shot has a maximum amount of surface area it can touch and therefore damage)