Name:  Armored Components
Type (Category):  Equipment (Enhancer)
Reference:  Tactical Operations: Advanced Units & Equipment (p. 95)

Description:
Though battlefield systems are already built ruggedly enough for the stresses of modern combat, extensive testing with alternative compartmentalizing techniques has enabled engineers to further protect most of a ’Mech’s internal components against damage. Cost and weight issues, however, have prevented widespread production of this technology, as well as its expansion into non-’Mech fields.

Game Rules:
Each critical slot of an armored component can suffer one critical hit with no effect (a second critical hit to the same slot, however, delivers the same effects as a hit against a standard component). Armored components receive this benefit over all of the component’s slots.

Except for ammunition bins, explosive components (such as Gauss rifles) may be installed as armored components, and will explode only upon the second critical hit to a given slot. If an armored component explodes in a location protected by CASE, the CASE system will resolve the effects as per its normal rules.

When a slot suffers its first critical hit, draw a slash through the circle for that slot of the armored component. Upon a second hit to the same critical slot, draw a line through the item itself to indicate that it has been damaged as normal.

Armored shoulder and hip actuators that have not received a first critical hit also protect a ’Mech from a Limb Blown Off result on the Determining Critical Hits Table. In such a case, the appropriate shoulder or hip slot is treated as though it suffers its first critical hit, and will be destroyed on any subsequent critical hits to its location (a subsequent Limb Blown Off result also affects the unit as normal if an armored shoulder or hip has already suffered its first critical hit). No component armor can prevent a Blown Off result from happening to a ’Mech’s head.

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Prototype Date:	3061
Production Date:	3082
Extinction Date:	—
Recovery Date:	—

WEAPONS AND EQUIPMENT COMBAT AND CONSTRUCTION TABLE * See rules for this equipment
** Adds to existing weapon or equipment
CS = Critical Slots

RULES LEVEL PROGRESSION TABLE
ALPHA STRIKE WEAPON CONVERSION TABLE
Special Unit Abilities

Prototype Date:	3061
Production Date:	3077
Extinction Date:	—
Recovery Date:	—

WEAPONS AND EQUIPMENT COMBAT AND CONSTRUCTION TABLE * See rules for this equipment
** Adds to existing weapon or equipment
CS = Critical Slots

RULES LEVEL PROGRESSION TABLE
ALPHA STRIKE WEAPON CONVERSION TABLE
Special Unit Abilities

Prototype Date:	3061
Production Date:	3082
Extinction Date:	—
Recovery Date:	—

WEAPONS AND EQUIPMENT COMBAT AND CONSTRUCTION TABLE * See rules for this equipment
** Adds to existing weapon or equipment
CS = Critical Slots

RULES LEVEL PROGRESSION TABLE
ALPHA STRIKE WEAPON CONVERSION TABLE
Special Unit Abilities

Prototype Date:	3061
Production Date:	3077
Extinction Date:	—
Recovery Date:	—

WEAPONS AND EQUIPMENT COMBAT AND CONSTRUCTION TABLE * See rules for this equipment
** Adds to existing weapon or equipment
CS = Critical Slots

RULES LEVEL PROGRESSION TABLE
ALPHA STRIKE WEAPON CONVERSION TABLE
Special Unit Abilities

Prototype Date:	—
Production Date:	—
Extinction Date:	—
Recovery Date:	—

WEAPONS AND EQUIPMENT COMBAT AND CONSTRUCTION TABLE * See rules for this equipment
** Adds to existing weapon or equipment
CS = Critical Slots
ALPHA STRIKE WEAPON CONVERSION TABLE
Special Unit Abilities

Prototype Date:	—
Production Date:	—
Extinction Date:	—
Recovery Date:	—

WEAPONS AND EQUIPMENT COMBAT AND CONSTRUCTION TABLE * See rules for this equipment
** Adds to existing weapon or equipment
CS = Critical Slots
ALPHA STRIKE WEAPON CONVERSION TABLE
Special Unit Abilities