| From: | Georg Greve <ggreve@*******.HANSE.DE> |
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| Subject: | Re: Spells against Barriers |
| Date: | Thu, 21 Sep 1995 18:20:56 +0200 |
> My general opinion of RAM and Wrecker is 'a total waste of time'. As
> you point out when you need them they are woefully underpowered. My
> preffered solution is 'power bolt it', simple, metal is about target
> 5, or 8 if they messed about with it so much it counts as a complex
> alloy, all you need is 2 or 3 success, bang deadly wound target
> explodes, oh its barrier what??, well this is a combat attack spell,
> armour/barrier rating is irrelevant.
Hmmm... I don't think this is possible. You CAN attack a door or
whatever with a powerbolt, but that's where the "barrier rating is
doubled" stuff comes into play. I think you don't have the usual
"damage level" stuff when attacking non-living targets (only exception
could be cars if I'm right) - you have to compare the power-level of
the attack (which would be the force of the Power Bolt) against the
double barrier rating to see what happens. The "Ram" spell has a
"damage level" of S, but 2 successes aren't enough to stage it up to D
every time - so I would expand the above to: When you power bolt a
door you add the successes to the force and compare it to twice the
barrier rating, at least that's how I would read the rules.
This is why the "Ram" spell was invented. So I think it is O.K. to use
half the barrier rating for the "Ram" spell but double the rating for
all other spells. The "Ram" spell was designed especially to damage
barriers, so I see no problem if you allow this special spell to
damage barriers effectively.
Bye...
Georg
