LordCreampuff said:
Exactly. The Turbo Penetrator round is a sniper rifle round anyway. I can't be used in the needle pistol.
I don't know why they even bother giving the needle pistol an armor penetration of 1D6 as the lowest vehicle armor is 8 or 10 (not sure). Both of which are greater than the maximum possible for the needle pistol.
9 is the AV on a standard civillian vehicle I believe. I don't believe anything lower is listed except perhaps in extreme cases for terrain.
In
friendly games, we often assign AV's to buildings and such, just in case folks want to destroy/knock them down a bit to get a better line of sight or whatever.
I do recall that in one such game, there was some WWII era pup tents on the board (left over from an earlier game of something involving panzers and MG 42s...), and when someone's models were hiding behind them, getting like a 6 cover save, mainly because they couldn't be seen.
Of course they kept rolling 6s until their opponent got cranky and asked what the tents AV was, I said 5. Its a pup tent. So he shelled them with a Vindicator.
So, in friendly games, the needle pistol could damage a pup tent.
Maybe.