From:	David Hinkley dhinkley@***.org
Subject:	Heavy Armor
Date:	Sat, 27 Feb 1999 03:27:43 -0800

From: David Buehrer <dbuehrer@******.carl.org>
Subject: Re: Heavy Armor
To: shadowrn@*********.org
Date sent: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 11:22:22 -0700 (MST)
Send reply to: shadowrn@*********.org

> Elling Polden wrote:
> /
> / Problem here is that this goes bouth ways. Lets take the ole Buldog
> / Stepvan BC. It is a unrestricted civilian vehicle, costs maybe 60 K,
> / and you need armorpiercers to even harm it. Any runner that is not
> / stupid would get one, and tadah! they are prety close to unstoppable.
>
> IMO any runner that *would* get one would be stupid. If they use a Bulldog
> then they turn the spotlight on themselves and they aren't in the shadows
> anymore. The Bulldog marks them and makes it easy to ID their handy work.

Paint it chocolote brown, put the driver in a brown uniform and the vehicle
disapears in a North American City. Want have an invisible car? Start with a
medium priced four dour sedan, paint it bright yellow, put a lit in service light
on top, paint a name on the side and the police will never get a useful
discription.


>
> The point of being a shadowrunner is to stay in the shadows. That means
> buying equipment that you can take into the shadows with you. That means
> operating in the shadows.

With careful camoflague you can make your own shadows at high noon.

> As you pointed out using something like the Bulldog will bring the
> wrath of Lone Star (or a corp's paramilitary assets) down upon you.
>
> The smart thing to do is to get an inconspicuous Ford Americar that you
> can ditch if you need to without losing much.

Stolen from a long term parking lot, with stolen plates from another vehicle,
put the originals back on just before you dump it. Or leave the stolen plates
on it, the keys in the ignition, a bit of evidence in the trunk and park it in a
high crime area <EPCG>




David Hinkley
dhinkley@***.org