Vehicle STR versus Entangles?

[eepjr24]

Do you use the lift STR of a vehicle to break out of entangles? If not, do you convert the Combat Movement to STR (per 6e2 pg 25)? Or add the two together?

 

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[Steve Long]

See The Ultimate Vehicle 183-84 for a discussion of how Entangles affect Vehicles (and vice-versa) -- just replace any references to “inches” of movement with “meters,” and adjust the math as necessary.

 

The GM may, in his discretion, use the Vehicle’s velocity to increase its STR to break out of an Entangle,  adapting the rules on the bottom right of 6E2 25 for these purposes. However, as noted in those rules, movement used to enhance STR can’t also be used for movement (i.e., it doesn’t move the Vehicle any further), it has to be “dedicated” to improving STR. Vehicles moving in combat may often find themselves in situations where they’re using their maximum velocity to move quickly and are thus unable to suddenly change what they’re using their meters of movement for. Furthermore, the rules on TUV 183 already provide a way to use velocity instead of movement to break free from an Entangle — so using velocity to add to vehicular STR would largely invalidate that rule, or be unbalancingly effective.