The size of the vehicle is irrelevant when it comes to infantry fire in SG.
The important part is the vehicle's Armour, which is not always the same.
Armour 0 or 1 is the equivalent of your average truck or steel plate
(respectively). Small arms fire cannot hurt armour 2 or above (you could still
suppress the target, but this has little effect on MBTs in SG).
With regard to non-penetrating hits, I think you could presume that the
drives and sensors have at least minimal armour to protect them from small
arms (non-deflatable tyres, self sealing hoverskirts, armoured glass
etc),
but are no defence against anti-vehicle weapons. The armour 0 & 1
vehicles wouldn't bother with these systems to cut costs or not worry about
armouring these areas more than the main body of the vehicle.
'Neath Southern Skies - http://users.mcmedia.com.au/~denian/
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It is armour not size that determines weapon hit effects/limitations.
If by infantry weapon you mean small arms - ie the rifles, grenades and
SAW's of a typical rifle squad, there can be no damage at all:
p37 Firing Small Arms at Point Targets:
"...if the target is of armour class 2 or better, there can be NO EFFECT other
than the supression..."
and that section goes on to detail what happens for small arms hits on armour
class 1 or less.
If by "infantry weapon" you refer to infantry fired missiles, which could
include everything up to a GMS/H depending on circumstance (not likely
the
GMS/H, which will be predominantly vehicle mounted, like the TOW system
today). Certainly GMS/L systems might be infantry carried (like the
European HOT system or the new American Javelin). With all these weapons
there is certainly the effect of non-penetrating hits - after all, by
that it means you are hitting the least armoured bits of the vehicle.
The damage isn't automatic, though, unless you roll a SYSTEMS hit, and that is
only a 1 in 6 chance. If you roll a SUSPENSION hit, you still have to make an
opposed roll vs the weapon's impact value. This is detailed on
page 39 of the rulebook, in the section "Non-Penetrating Hits on
Vehicles"
And yes it give infantry weapons a 1 in 3 chance of possibly damaging the
vehicle on a non-penetrating hit - but so they should. Wheels and
tracks are rather vulnerable targets, as are antennae and optics.
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