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[Cyborne Elemental]

Why do clan mechs lose their lower arm actuator or hand actuator if they load a Ballistic heavier than a MG, or if they put a PPC in their arms?

Most of the time, there is plenty of room left to put that actuator in there, why does it get locked out?

Doesn't make much sense to me.

[dJellyfish]

Balance.

[Weaselball]

It's easy to get around, at least for mechs like the Summoner. Just like the Victor with an AC20 in one arm, as long as the other arm has a lower actuator you get left and right movement out of it still. So load one arm up with that ERPPC and put lower actuators in the other arm and you're good to go.

[Archon]

Arbitrary "balance."

[101011]

Because table top.

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While they can be considered structural components, the lower-arm and hand actuators are themselves Pod-mounted and easily removed to provide additional Pod Space in the arms. However, the mounting points for them in the arms are also utilized by larger bore weaponry such as Gauss Rifles, Autocannons, and PPCs, so the lower-arm and hand must be removed to carry these weapon types on OmniMech arms, hampering the close-combat abilities of these configurations

Edited by 101011, 13 October 2014 - 06:12 PM.

[Monkey Lover]

Because they got your money and now its time to make clans suck

[FupDup]

It's a random TT rule that was added because of reasons. That's about it, really.

[XxXAbsolutZeroXxX]

The hand and arm actuators might provide the arms with 10 hp in additional internal structure.

I think a PPC or an autocannon might count as 10 hp in internal structure. Its limited to cap the internal structure hp a person can gain by mounting components?

[101011]

I Zeratul I, on 13 October 2014 - 06:29 PM, said:

The hand and arm actuators might provide the arms with 10 hp in additional internal structure.

I think a PPC or an autocannon might count as 10 hp in internal structure. Its limited to cap the internal structure hp a person can gain by mounting components?

Wait, what? Components do not add hitpoints to the structure.

[Tezcatli]

Couldn't it also stem from the fact that Clanners disdain melee combat?

[Mcgral18]

101011, on 13 October 2014 - 06:46 PM, said:

Wait, what? Components do not add hitpoints to the structure.

The opposite, in a sense.

15% of crit damage is sent to the IS. I'm not sure if Actuators have 10 HP, or an infinite pool, but they certainly count as crits according to this picture:



As a result, the AC20 can actually deal 29 damage because 60*0.15=9 if you roll those 3 crits.

[101011]

Mcgral18, on 13 October 2014 - 06:58 PM, said:

The opposite, in a sense.

15% of crit damage is sent to the IS. I'm not sure if Actuators have 10 HP, or an infinite pool, but they certainly count as crits according to this picture:

-snip-

As a result, the AC20 can actually deal 29 damage because 60*0.15=9 if you roll those 3 crits.

Yes, I believe Karl confirmed that actuators count as crits.