Re: [BNW] Newcommer with a few questions

["Steve Crow" <crow_steve@hotmail.com>]

>Hi there
>
>My name is Nikolaj Lemche and I'm a newcomer to the list. I am really happy
>to find a forum where you can talk about Brave New World.
>
>I have a few questions about the game, I hope I don't annoy anyone if these
>are things you people have already talked about.
>
>1. How much damage can you take when you have superstrength?
>   First I thought that it was you strength _dice_ that determined the 
>number
>of wounds you can take, but then in Ravaged planet there's this covenant
>power where you can get superstrength and there it is written that the 
>extra
>damage you can take because of this strength bonus disappears when you
>returns to normal strength.
>   So does this mean that if you have a strength of 4d6+3 then you can take 
>7
>wounds in a location before you are knocked out?
>

Matt has stated that the latter is correct,yes.  The Strength bonus also 
adds to Jumping, Lifting, and what not.

>2. Active defense. In melee combat the difficulty to be hit is 5 + your
>combat skill bonus + evt. weapon defense bonus. If you use an action to
>dodge then it becomes speed d6 roll + dodge bonus.
>   Do you get the combat skill + weapon defense bonus added to your action
>score of the dodge roll? If you don't then wont dodge not often cause you 
>to
>be hit more often than if you didn't dodge?
>

According to the rules, apparently not.  We noticed this discrepancy the 
other night as well.  However, it was a Bouncer who noticed this, and since 
it entitled him to use Flip-Toss (or whatever it is called), so the slightly 
easier TN for his oppponent to hit him made sense in this case.  For others, 
it doesn't seem to.  which is probalby why Dodge, while at least permissible 
(it isn't in Deadlands or HoE) against close combat attacks, isn't 
necessarilyt he best thing to do and remains a more effective tactic against 
ranged attacks (or if you're a lover, not a fighter, and don't _have_ 
hand-to-hand combat skills).

>3. Covers with wounds and size?
>   If you follow the rules then a cover gets blown to bits easier if you 
>are
>smaller because it is your size that determines how many wounds an attack
>generates. Have any of you found a solution to this problem?
>

I'd treat the cover as a default size 5 for figuring damage.  Then anything 
that gets through, compare to the normal Size of the target.

>4. Indestructible vehicles.
>   Vehicles seem to be incredible tough. If you take a Camaro then it has
>armor 10, size 10 and it can take 15 wounds before being destroyed. This
>mean that a single attack need to do 160 points of damage to be able to
>destroy this type of car.
>   A 120 mm rocket will on average only do 2 wounds of damage to the car
>(30.8% chance of 1 wound, 17% chance of 3 wounds) meaning that you need to
>hit it with an average of 8 120 mm rockets before being able to destroy
>it?!?
>   I hope I have misunderstood the vehicle damage rules.
>

Would have to check.  Remember that their are "steps" of damage, so that the 
vehicle will be effectively useless long before it is vaporized.  :)

>Nikolaj Lemche
>
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