>>23453644
>If so then lighting the exterior on fire's a weird choice.
>Seems counter-intuitive you're trying to prevent an explosion by burning someone.
From what we've seen, covering an MS in napalm or whatever doesn't destroy it. There's a Zaku in MS Igloo that gets caught in the explosion of a napalm warhead and the pilot is panicking but the commander tells him to just keep moving. I guess sooner or later the suit will get damaged due to heat, but I don't think fire and napalm is an immediate danger to the reactor the same way a beam that tears a hole through all the armor and reactor containment walls is a danger.

>is there anything on Heat Axes or Heat-based weapons being less volatile to reactors?
This I have no answer for at all, sorry.