Inatmo Vehicle Combat

The main challenge for the attacker is that their target is moving at high speed. The persona launching the attack is relatively motionless, and only the movement rate of the vehicle applies. The speed of the vehicle makes a successful attack roll more difficult. The greater the speed differential, the harder it is to hit the target. The speed of the vehicle adjusts its Defence Rating.

The main challenge for the attacker is that they are moving at high speed. The target is relatively motionless, and only the movement rate of the vehicle applies. The speed of the vehicle makes a successful attack roll more difficult. The greater the speed differential, the harder it is to hit the target. The speed of the vehicle improves the Defence Rating of the stationary target.

Attacking from a vehicle moving 25 h/u is equivalent to attacking through a gale-force wind. Attacking from a vehicle moving 45 h/u is equivalent to attacking through 100 mph wind.

The challenge for attackers includes speed differential, drag, vibration, and evasive maneuvers. These conditions make a successful attack roll more difficult. The greater the relative speed of the two vehicles, the more difficult it is to score a hit. The slower moving vehicle has less penalties.

The following demonstrates the attack roll penalties between vehicle Eh going 30 h/u and vehicle Bee going 50 h/u

It is much harder for attackers from the higher speed vehicle (-450) to attack the slower speed vehicle (-150).

We do not bother with flanking in vehicle combat. There is no advantage to flanking when vehicles are entirely randomly created. A vehicle’s flank could be as forbidding as its bow.

Hitting the vehicle with a rock, bullet or lazer beam will damage a random location. The premise of the random location is the same for all inorganic damage location charts. The system damaged may be some distance from the damage point. Ricochets, power surges and force distribution essentially make the damage location random.

If the vehicle does not have the location generated the player can roll again, or move to nearest damageable hit location.

The extent of damage is determined randomly and modified by the hit points of the damage delivered. Since vehicles and vehicle components don’t have HPS, they suffer reduced efficiency when damaged.

The extent of damage is modified upwards by the HPS of damage inflicted on the system. For example, 15 HPS of damage would increase the extent of damage roll by 15. If the player rolls 08 on the 1d100 roll with 15 hit points of damage, she moves the extent of damage from Trivial to Minor.

Referees may wish to adjust the amount of damage even further. For every 75 HPS in damage, the attacker makes an additional extent of damage roll. Thus a single attack that inflicts 230 HPs in damage to the vehicle would make three extent of damage rolls at +75 and one roll at +5. A fusion grenade attack could damage every component on a vehicle and not just destroy a single component. MUltiple damage rolls allows big hit point totals to do big damage. Big HPS Big Damage rules are optional.

The damaging effects of successful attacks are cumulative. A vehicle system can become disabled over several attacks. A system taking two major damage (40% performance drop) is now functioning at 36%. For example, a vehicle’s speed would be reduced from 100 kmh to 36 kmh.

A system is disabled when it is reduced to less than 10% function.

Instantaneous destruction occurs when an attack destroys a system in a single blow. The attack must drop the system from 100% to <1% function in a single attack.

Each time a system is damaged, its performance decreases. The damage descriptors offer another way to describe net damage. A system with minor damage is functioning at 90% capacity. A system with less than 10% of capacity if disable.

Nope. Strike weapons are self-powered thrusting and striking weapons. Attacks with swords, axes, or lances are usually precluded by range in vehicle combat. Strike weapons used against high speed vehicles will usually result in a pedestrian collision before vehicle damage.

Nope. Fling attacks are self-powered projectile attacks. Arrows, axes, and shuriken cannot compete with the winds of high-speed vehicles. The attack roll penalty for speed effectively eliminates all Fling attacks from vehicles.

Shoot weapons are powered projectile attacks. It is assumed that personas fighting between moving vehicles are using shoot weapons. These attack types are still subject to enormous penalties due to differentials, vibrations and wind drag. Individual weapons may reduce the penalties applied due to the wind effect. For example, a lazer or energy weapon is much less affected by air turbulence than a bullet.

Area weapons are grenades and aerosols. Area of effect attacks must score a hit on the vehicle to inflict damage. Typically Area weapons need only target a specific hex. In vehicle combat the Area Attack Roll must beat the vehicle’s Defence Rating.

These are bespoke combat accessories baked into the inatmo vehicle. Vehicle weapons are generated during vehicle fabrication. Built-in vehicular weapons may have gimbals, servos, and software to compensate for high-speed combat. These components significantly reduce the penalties suffered due to drag and speed differential.