From:	"Michael A. Kauffman" <mak9@******.EDU>
Subject:	Re: Armor
Date:	Thu, 29 Apr 1993 17:28:44 EDT

Wow discussion!

J, (can I call you J?), first in reference to to the " weirdness" of the
numbers 2 and 7. I don't think the number 2 is weird. It's used quite often.
Now 7 is often concedered a lucky number. Well thats beside the point. My 7
comes from 20/3. Let me explain this, but first a fact on vehicle armor in
the conversion from SRI to SRII. one point of armor in SRI equals 3 points of
armor in SRII. When I first though about armor I was thinking SRI mainly
because RBB was written for SRI. I came up with a 20% increase. Then I
realized that this was wrong for SRII and divided by 3 (and rounded to 7%).
I did realize that this was a "weird" no. but I didn't whether I wanted to up
it to 10% or lower it to 5% (less "weird" no.). So I through it into the net
for discussion. My personal perference is 5% but let's talk.

Second, my perference is non-ablastic(sp?) armor. It keeps in line with
normal armor and the way vehicle armor is now.

Mike Kauffman
AKA Amonchare
(now who's rambling)