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@Bear Ribs @Atarlost Ah, here the relevant section for uncontrolled atmospheric entry: "An out-of-control unit (including fighters) that enters the interface suffers 250 points of damager per point of velocity (or 50 points if the speed was 0)." All this damage is applied to a single hit...

I'll have to look up the re-entry rules again, but it's pretty severe, especially for an uncontrolled entry. Impact with the ground is as bad or worse. Total Warfare damage = velocity (likely somewhere in the range of 3-8) x 10 x roll of 2d6.

This is simply an example of an ASF at low altitude losing control and the pilot recovering enough to make the crash survivable. NOTHING, and I mean NOTHING in the rules OR FLUFF suggest an ASF can make an uncontrolled atmospheric entry to become a lawn dart, and THEN takeoff again. The...

Crash results in destruction. Simply that. A bad landing causes damage. We're not taking about not sticking a landing.

Nothing in Battletech fluff or rules supports this.

The joys of tech UPGRADES!!!!

IT's for these reasons alone, that I have never really bought the toughness of BTech armor. And I always felt that the B5 ships were a little TOO dense. Mind you, I'm a huge BattleTech fan, and I've been playing it for decades. I have just learned to turn off my brain when I look at the tech. :P...

@Bear Ribs you're probaly in that most of what ive seen so far caps the Omega at 4-5 Gs of acceleration. Unfortunately, I havent found anywhere what the endurance of the Omega is for sustained thrust and maneuvering. We do know the Omega can lock the grav deck down to make maneuvering easier...

I think what really matters in this discussion is the speed of the B5 Omega. IF it can realistically pull 15G turns and acceleration rates in 10-100Gs then the McKenna and its fighters have 0 chance of killing it. No shots are gonna hit, and none of the ASF are going to be able to even close...

Typically not to damage, but increase difficulty to hit. Only very specialized weapons get different damage values at different ranges.

Only thing I remember reading in one of the B5 novels was the crew of an Omega dealing with 3g's at some point.