DFM, on 11 April 2018 - 08:25 AM, said:
It's been a while, but where exactly is this? Again, I get people like big badaboom's so Stackpoling was given rules in the TacOp handbook.
Those rules were the engine had a chance to pop if it took 4 crits in the same phase of the turn.
Its what seems to happen to Mechs with XL engines and LFEs that don't have CASE installed when playing Megamek (the 'unofficial' Battletech for PC which dives into as many BT rules as you tick the boxes for), in one case from forgetting to put CASE into a modded mech given an XL engine and in another case after the CASE on was given a critical hit (and subsequently destroyed). There's no actual explosion that damages anyone.
But the pilot is dead.
The mech is represented as a crater.
There's nothing to salvage at all. At the end of match the mech is chucked up as a total loss even if you -- the owner of the mech -- won the fight when it returns to Megamek HQ (the campaign end).
For whatever reason, if an XL engine or LFE is destroyed with most of the damage being on whatever sides don't have CASE (or via center torso engine damage).... the mech is shown as a crater rather than a wreckage and the pilot is dead with nothing to salvage. In one of the cases I got an arm... but only because that had been previously blown off.... and used later in melee attacks.
This leaves me under the assumption that either it went boom... but not the kinda boom that goes beyond 30 meters.
Or it becomes completely unsalvageable (and in both cases my pilots just died and I might've missed if it was something else that killed them.. There were no ammo explosions or Gauss explosions, though one of these was an Atlas K. In its case a lucky pair of hits nailed the CASE and 1 crit on the engine, and another went CT and nailed the engine twice and the Gyro once. Crater. The other one lost the side torso during a skid with one internal crit to the engine from a previous mission and no new internal crits, but once you lose a side torso...crater with nothing to salvage. The most embarrassing way to lose an expensive mech... crossing a parking lot in the rain and slipping.. before even encountering combat.)
Edited by Koniving, 11 April 2018 - 10:00 AM.
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