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From: Gurth <gurth@******.NL>
Subject: Re: Armor
Date: Fri, 5 Dec 1997 10:22:13 +0100
David Buehrer said on 7:47/ 4 Dec 97...

> If the power of a physical attack is less than the armor rating of
> the target, the damage of the attack becomes stun.

This sounds good, but look a bit deeper: hardly any attack in SR has a
Power that's less than the armor rating that defends against it...

Apart from that, it sounds like a good enough rule to me.

> And it would still be possible for a Sam with a Predator to damage a
> Banshee if he was a good enough shot to stage the damage past Deadly
> Stun into physical damage.

One problem: vehicles don't _have_ Stun tracks, so any damage they take is
Physical.

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