Re: [HOE] armor damage

["Stephan Elsner" <schnabul@yahoo.de>]

Sounds very good to me.......thanks all so far for your prompt answers!

Marshal S.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Joe Kaczmarek" <kilgore_the_mad@hotmail.com>
To: <hoe@gamerz.net>
Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2002 6:03 AM
Subject: Re: [HOE] armor damage


> >
> > >> 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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