Long range on heavy weapons

[Nick]

Are heavy weapons -1 to penetration hitting soft targets and infantry?

Thanks

Nick

[Tim Haslam]

It’s just AP rounds which suffer the long range penalty, as I understand it.

A massive HE round lobbed over a great distance still blows up the same, it doesn’t need the “push” so to speak that the AP requires.

 

 

[Stuart Harrison]

The long range penetration penalty is part of the additional penetration modifiers on p106/107.

First sentence of the paragraph introducing them (p106, Vehicles, Shooting at vehicles, Damage vs Armoured Targets, second para) – “When shooting against armoured vehicles with a heavy weapon, the following penetration modifiers apply.”  If it’s not armoured, it doesn’t apply.  If you’re not using a heavy weapon, it doesn’t apply.  Even if it is a heavy weapon and the target is armoured, there are exceptions (HE, flamethrowers, and shaped charges).

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