From:	The Digital Mage <mn3rge@****.AC.UK>
Subject:	Re: Gel armour
Date:	Thu, 8 Jun 1995 13:30:55 +0100

On Thu, 8 Jun 1995, P Ward wrote:

> 2 or 3 hits on even heavy sec armour and the stuff's going to be ragged.
> I ruled that the original ballistic rating, etc took damage as per FoF,
> and only the hardened rating degraded, it makes the stuff a little better.
>
How common is armour degradation anyway, in real life I mean. In my games
I'll only bother to degrade armour if its it by explosive rounds (and
then I'd use the blast against barriers rules) or in other exceptional
circumstances eg being the sole target of a miniguns 15 rounds :)
This just keeps the book keeping down I guess.

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