From:	Loki <daddyjim@**********.COM>
Subject:	Re: [COW] Hellblast (was Andrews been thinking again)
Date:	Mon, 8 Sep 1997 12:52:10 -0700

---Quickfix dives wrote:
>
> At 04:46 PM 08/09/97 -0500, Loki <gamemstr@********.com> wrote:
> >When compared with the Fireball, is this big whammy worth the
possible
> >extra 4 damage you can do to opponents, when you'll have to deal
with
> >taking the backlash of 2 points of armor piercing damage?
> >
> >OK, here's another question that came up during last nights game(s).
> >
> >When does the 2 armor piercing damage come into play - before or
after
> >the normal spell/combat damage. At first this may seem trivial, but
> >it's not. If the armor piercing damage comes first, as a stinger
when
> >the spell cast is turn then this forces the damage from the spell's
> >Attack Value to be spread out among more of your runners if present
> >(as such damage cannot be overflowed). Do you see what I mean by
this?
> >
>
> The way I understand it all damage is resolved at the same time.
You've
> lost me though with the spreading of the spell's attack value
amongst your
> runners. The only damage Hellblast does to your own runners is the 2
points
> of AP. If you're talking about damage from another source and the
runner
> has armour then the armour will still be effective against that
source (if
> its not AP damage).

Yes, I was referring to an opponent casting Hellblast while combatting
you, like on an interecept of such. My question wasn't about armor.

> No matter which way you add it up it will come to the
> same amount of damage taken. With all damage resolved at the same
time it
> shouldn't matter as to timing.

As I said, the timing seems trivial at first, but it can make a
difference. As in an example from our game the other night. One of the
players' teams was hit by a Hellblast when another runner interecpeted
his shadowrun. He placed the counters for the 8+d6 damage first
killing off Ajax and then he went about doling out counters for the 2
armor piercing damage each amongst the rest of his runners. If he had
to place the armor piercing damage first, this would have meant that
Ajax could have only taken one more point of damage from the 8+d6
(he's a 3/3) and since you can't normally overflow damage on a runner
this would mean that Craig would have had to find other recipients for
two more points of damage from the spells Attack Value (which Ajax had
been used to soak in my first example).

Does my quesion make better sense now?

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