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Message no. 1
From: Stuart Marsh <sam10@***.AC.UK>
Subject: APDS and barriers
Date: Mon, 1 May 1995 10:42:49 +0100
I am confused about tyhe apds rules, I know that they half standard balistic
body armour but what about critter vehicle armour and vehicle armour.
In the rules it says this vehicle/hardened armour acts as a barrier rating
so a vehicle with an armour of 8 will bounce all power 8> weapons .......
but...... it says for apds that when using apds agaiunst barriers you half the
power of the apds..... from what people on this list have been saying it sounds
as if you do not half tyhe power of apds rounds against vehicle/hardened armour
but instead half the armour
........something sounds a bit shady here

anyone want to clear it up.....
C
CINDER
Message no. 2
From: Jani Fikouras <feanor@**********.UNI-BREMEN.DE>
Subject: Re: APDS and barriers
Date: Mon, 1 May 1995 18:49:14 +0200
> I am confused about tyhe apds rules, I know that they half standard balistic
> body armour but what about critter vehicle armour and vehicle armour.
> In the rules it says this vehicle/hardened armour acts as a barrier rating
> so a vehicle with an armour of 8 will bounce all power 8> weapons .......
> but...... it says for apds that when using apds agaiunst barriers you half the
> power of the apds..... from what people on this list have been saying it sounds
> as if you do not half tyhe power of apds rounds against vehicle/hardened armour
> but instead half the armour

I am prety sure that your right, but I have to look it up. I think that
I'll start carrying my SR books around me everywhere I go :)

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Message no. 3
From: Gurth <gurth@******.NL>
Subject: Re: APDS and barriers
Date: Tue, 2 May 1995 12:18:49 +0200
> I am prety sure that your right, but I have to look it up. I think that
> I'll start carrying my SR books around me everywhere I go :)

Well, at least you'd get people staring at you :)


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Message no. 4
From: Damion Milliken <adm82@***.EDU.AU>
Subject: Re: APDS and barriers
Date: Wed, 2 Aug 1995 20:44:00 +1000
Ioannis Pantelidis writes:

> ear george the apds ammo oes more amage to to a barrier as it is in
> rules because it half the rating of the barrier when you use apds.

But only when firing through. If it's going to be used to damage the
barrier, then it works the same as a normal bullet. (That's on page 277 of
SRII.)

However, just what the relationship is between the Firing Through rules and
the Break Through rules is I am not so certain. I would have thought that
the idea was to use them both more or less simultaneously. So when a barrier
of Rating 4 was hit with a Power 6 bullet, it would penetrate, and do 1
Rating point of damage to the barrier. If the barrier had been Rating 10,
then the bullet would not penetrate, nor would it damage the barrier. If the
bullet were APDS (and the barrier Rating 10), then it would penetrate, but
do insufficient damage to the barrier to rake up a point of Rating
reduction. (Remember, for the Break Through rules, barriers get double
Rating vs bullets.) How do you guys all use the barrier rules?

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