Zzap gun on a battlewagon

[Seahawk]

When a zzap gun rolls a 10+ for its strength, it now gets hot on a 1, 2, or 3. The problem is that it specifically says it's a wound that's resolved against the crew instead of the gun, thus overriding the normal gets hot rules. 

 

How does it work when mounted on a battlewagon where there is no crew?

 

 

[Raeven]

I can't remember. Are vehicles immune to gets hot or do they suffer a hull point?

[Seahawk]

Vehicles aren't immune. In normal scenarios, a vehicle that has the Gets Hot! weapon that Gets Hot suffers a glancing hit.

 

However, the zzap gun does not follow the normal Gets Hot! rules: "...and the weapon Gets Hot on any To Hit roll of 1, 2, or 3. If a Zzap gun Gets Hot, the wound is resolved against the crew."

 

The gun itself never suffers from Gets Hot; the crew do. However, when mounted on a vehicle there is no crew, so does the Gets Hot just fizzle and nothing gets hurt? RAW seems to say so.

[Raeven]

I would say it affects the tank. RAI if not precisely RAW. But I'll have to check my books to verify that position.

[Seahawk]

It was suggested to me that maybe it only affects the wound allocation half of Gets Hot, and not the vehicle damage half of it.

[Venemox]

That half of the rule really only affects the Mek Gunz, as only artillery have 'crew' per se.  Also looks to me like it's always resolved against the crew, at any strength.

[CoffeeGrunt]

Makes sense, to prevent the gun itself blowing up. Instead, you get a Grot to die. I think it is Wound allocation specifically, otherwise Vehicle Damage is resolved as normal.

[Interrogator-Chaplain Ezra]

RAW, it seems the vehicle is unharmed. Strange, but there it is.