01-27-2016, 06:39 AM
(01-27-2016, 03:45 AM)Surge Wrote: Here's a mental image for you guys. What happens to a battlemech when 11 tons of HE ammo goes off in it's left torso? I'm guessing the left arm flies off with enough force to pancake another mech, the center torso gets vaporized, and what's left is flung to the right like crumpled paper. Then afterwards there's a crater big enough to hide another mech inside of and every building for a mile in any direction no longer has any windows.
Depends on whether your mech has the detachable ammo cassettes or are just hard cased. Computer will jettison ammo rather than risk it going off if it can. It's in battletech lore. Which is why it's always confused me when the tabletop said ammo could be set off. Especially rockets and missiles which won't unless they are armed.
So generally. The worst you'd get, surge, is the explosive ordnance burning off rather than exploding.