On 28Apr2020 0644, Phil Pugliese - philpugliese at yahoo.com (via tml
list) wrote:

> I forgot to specify that the discussion was here on the TML & the GDW  > rep, which I now recall, was LorenW, & also, as best I recall, most
 > of us TML'ers were critical of the way the TNE combat system could >
instantly incapacitate PC's w/o actually doing much damage.
I was always in favour of that, and saw it as a feature - it lets the
PCs lose without dying horribly all the time.

What annoyed me were all the people who claimed it made people too tough
because "they could keep fighting after taking a plasma bolt to the
head", which was wrong on so many levels (the most obvious being that
the head had very few hit points, and head hits KO'd you on serious
rather than critical wounds), and showed that they hadn't actually read
the rules, or hadn't paid any attention when they had.

--
Rupert Boleyn <xxxxxx@gmail.com>