| From: | dbuehrer@****.org (David Buehrer) |
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| Subject: | Re: Heavy Vehicle - Armor and Weapons |
| Date: | Tue, 14 May 1996 11:59:42 -0600 (MDT) |
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|>From: "Sascha Pabst" <Sascha.Pabst@**********.Uni-Oldenburg.DE>
|>>At 22:48 Uhr 13.05.96, Brett Barksdale wrote:
|
|>>Is there a
|>>single weapon in the game that *doesn't* get reduced to 2's for
|>>the Banshee's resistance roll?
|
|>Relampago 120mm Railgun: 20D (Aztlan Sourcebook, p.179)
|>Vengeance MMG: 9S, Minigun,
|>Vanquisher HMG: 10S, Minigun,
|>Victory Rotary Cannon: 18D (12 rnds/complex action)
|>Vigilant Rotary Cannon: 20D ((12 rnds/complex action)
|>AAM, Rockets (all from RBB, with Sourcebook updates in SRII, p. 283)
|>Generic Assault Cannon: 18D,
|>also PAC: 18D
|
|However, without taking AP rounds into consideration, most of the
|above won't work against an 18 armor, will it? The 18 armor acts
|as a barrier rating - so anything with a power of 18 or less
|just won't do squat. And the rules specifically say that you look
|at the power of the weapon *before* autofire power staging takes
|effect. This means that the Vengeance, Vanquisher and Victory all
|fail. (The victory starts at a 18D. W/o armor piercing rounds, it
|is one level too weak to affect an 18 armor banshee. Am I correct
|on that?)
|
|>Hey, we *do* talk military, don't we?
|
|True enough. I was just trying to reconcile, say, 2 Banshee's
|shooting at each other. At first glance, it seemed to me that
|each one could shoot at the other all day long with nothing
|happening. But that 20D autocannon changes things, doesn't it? :-)
Also, and I can't quite remember how it works, but attacks that don't have
enough power to overcome the armor will still damage it (lower the barrier
rating). The first shot won't go through, and maybe not the second or
third, but keep plugging away and sooner or later there won't be enough
armor left to stop the attack.
I had a squad of LS cops take down a PC's armored limo with repeated
shotgun attacks. Boy was the PC pissed.
Of course a Banshee won't give you a whole lot of time to do this... :)
-David
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