LordStrath

@Greg, you may have tripped yourself up with terminology. There is no roll to penetrate, it is a roll to damage.

Penetration (pen) is usually a weapon stat that modifies that roll to damage. In the case of close quarters that pen value us generated by scoring hits (the second sentence in your quote – he rolled 11 hits giving a pen of 11). A…[Read more]

@Greg – you are correct for the damage results chart, the discussion is about the roll to damage, the step before you get to the damage results chart.

@Greg,

I’ve played the simulation-based WWII rulesets before and you spend most of the time looking up results on tables and cross-referencing charts then, 5 minutes later you get a result. You’re right, it’s not a lot of fun because you spend most of your gaming time sitting there doing nothing (waiting for fire resolutions).  I’ve been trying…[Read more]