Jeffro’s Car Wars Blog

Gunners in vehicles without computers get to add in their +1 to-hit bonuses… but if their driver has a computer they don’t.

!?

Yep. It’s true. This is because the vehicle sheets have already absorped their bonus into the to-hit roll! (Compare the stats for the Hot-Shot’s MGs to the Piranha’s to illustrate this.)

Evidently the designs in the 5th edition consistently put the targeting computer in the driver’s position. This is supposedly ’simpler’ because the to-hit rolls for both the driver and the gunner are the same now. One less bonus to calculate during play….

Before a duel you may want to move the targeting computer over to the gunner’s position. Then during play, the gunner now gets a total of +2 on his to-hit target. (Or, if you’re going by the calculated to-hit targets on your vehicle sheet… the gunner gets +1 and the driver gets -1.)

Tricky….