29. "RE: On the Tech of Battle"
In response to message #28
>Interestingly, this could lead to mech designs that would be >hilariously inefficient in the "real" world. It wasn't common for >someone rigging up a mech from scratch to go "hmm, no more space in >that arm after putting the weapons in it. I could put the ammo in the >torso... ahahahahaNO. Ammo goes in the other arm."
We had a rule that ammunition for a weapon could be no more than one zone away from the weapon itself. I suspect that was one of the actual rules they never quite managed to write down (like a proper explanation of the "center torso (critical)" hit location); I can think of no design in the 3025 TR that doesn't conform to it. (In fact, we were a little more generous to the likes of the standard Shadow Hawk 2H than the actual manual was, and added an exception to the one-zone rule that allowed the ammo for its head-mounted SRM2 to be moved to a side torso.)
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