Re: [HOE] armor damage

["Joe Kaczmarek" <kilgore_the_mad@hotmail.com>]

>
> >> Has anyone a good house rule of damage done to armor? I only know
> >> the rules of the Denver-Sourcebook and I think they are mainly
> >> made for power-armor.
> >
> >I just checked Denver to see what you're referring to and it's the
> >same as I use, except unpowered armor has no "systems" to be
> >damaged.  So, drop the AV by one for each wound that gets through.
> >
> >Bess demnahx ...
>
>This is way too harsh for unpowered armor. (Actually I think it's too harsh 
>for
>powered armor as well, but moreso for regular stuff.) Something like a
>bulletproof vest will be able to take at most two hits before becoming 
>useless,
>and more likely only one

Try this on for size: Any time a location covered by armor takes more than 
two wounds from a shooting attack, the attack has punched through the armor. 
  Make a talley mark.  When the armor accrues five talley marks, it goes 
down one armor level.  When it reaches AV 0, its useless.  Hand to hand 
attacks do a bit more damage to the armor.  Any time the wearer takes more 
than two wounds from a hand to hand attack, make a talley mark for each 
wound over the two. Light armor is treated as as av 1 for degredation 
purposes and so wears out quickly, but it is also much easier to 
replce/repair.

I don't know if thats more book keeping than you want to keep up with, but 
it seems like a fair way to balance the posses desire to have working armor 
with the everpresent need to keep them poor.

Your thoughts?

Joe Kaczmarek



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