Re: [HoE] Re: EMP vs. Black Hats

[Bryan Mullins <shamusmacdougal@yahoo.com>]

Steve Crow:
> >I'd just like to point out that if you have to
> waste a
> >Black Hat to get his kevlar, then its probably not
> in
> >the _best_ of shape after all that.
> >
> 
> Well, again, I've only been running HoE for a few
> months (and Deadlands for 
> a year before that).
> 
> But using the simplified combat system (as Pinnacle
> pretty much supports), 
> someone taking an arm/leg modifier to avoid the
> Kevlar in the first place, 
> and then putting the standard 30-36 points of damage
> into them, is going to 
> end up with a dead BH and an undamaged suit of
> Kevlar.
> 
> Even, using the simplified system, you don't target
> for hit location, if 50% 
> of your shots go to the chest/gizzards/Kevlar, that
> just reduces the "money 
> value" of a Squaddie of BHs from $15,000 to
> approximately $7,500.  That's 
> still a pretty good chunk of money.

Yikes!  That is a lot of cash! Surely one of the
Combine's ratfinks would notice an awfull lot of kev
being hawked in his settlement, and finger the posse
for "retribution".  That way they'd be able to sell
some the first time, but the second or third... Or if
they hawk the stuff in one town all the time they
would create a glut...imagine trying to get some
milrats by attempting to push the vests on an old man
who got so much he's made kev leisure suit!  (some
things never go out of style, yuk, yuk) 

> >And, one or two of the HoE books mentions an
> explosive
> >called c-20 I think.  Imagine how volitile that is!
> >
> 
> Also imagine how much more stable they've made it.

Yeah, but how much fun is completly stable, yet highly
powerful explosives?  I mean, its a simple and
effective way to keep your posse (or their enemies)
from abusing it.  And if you couldn't guess, Im a big
fan of big explosions...so just ignore the Beavis in
me.

-Bryan "heh heh, FIRE" Mullins
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