From:	Ken Ken@********.com
Subject:	Salsa, extra hot
Date:	Wed, 11 Aug 1999 20:24:13 -0400

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Now I'll be the first to admit I'm not an expert on this but here's my take:
Thought 1. An AntiVehicle Rocket (what I'm figuring AVR stands for) was
designed for Military purposes and used to facing armor FAR heavier than
that found in your Average Limo even an armored limo.

Thought 2. If you were going to fire a rocket at a vheicle in a city at a
street light (aka, lots of witnesses) from far enough away that there would
be a reasonable chance that you might get away with it, the rocket would
have plenty of time to come up to speed. Now I'm not sure of how fast these
things travel so I'm going to assume that they can Haul a substantial amount
of Tukus.

Thought 3. If the AVR hit the door or a window at speed, chances are it
would punch through the car and explode just outside on the way out because
there is substantial less armor than the rocket was designed to penetrate.
Thus the limos armor would act like it was supposed to and step down the
explosion and the folks inside (while surprised, would be able to resist
just the explosion damage). The explosion would be what would total the
car. Suppose the rocket hit the engine. All that metal would stop the
rocket and center the explosion on the front part of the car which probably
would cause the car to explode. Or if the Kookaburra was shooting from
above at an angle, the rocket would go through the roof or a window and
punch through the floor and explode off the street which would cause the car
to explode. In any case, I dont think that the successes would matter
unless the Kookaburra was trying to shoot someone through the window. In
which case the rocket would punch through the car and the poor bastard of a
target and explode outside. The real damage would come from the coming
explosion and not the accuracy of the shot.
> "And now, a Channel 6 editorial reply to Wolfchild."
> ] > Here's a bad diagram, assume no real distance between target and
> back wall.
> ] >
> ] > -------->
> ] > Wall <---*--> Target
> ] >
> ] > So, those two arrows represent the power of the grenade. If there's
> ] > no distance, does the power double, as in the bad diagram?
> ]
> ] I would say yes, as per SR2 page 98. I would also say that every 3 point
> ] increase in power would increase the damage level by 1, although that
> ] isn't technically in the rules.
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> Okay, here's another one (this is all just to make sure I understand
> these esoteric rules I've never had the chance to use).
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> Say Poncho The Kookaburra, famed terrorist, is targeting a limousine
> with his favourite rocket launcher, "Peggy," using an AVR. The limo is
> stopped at a traffic light, and Poncho's been aiming, and his final TN
> is 5. He gets a ludicrous 9 successes, and negates the scatter. The
> limo's got 12 points of Armour (hey, I haven't seen Rigger 2, I dunno),
> and 6 points of Body. Being an anti-vehicle weapon, the Power of the
> attack is reduced by 6, for a final Power of 10. The limo rolls, but
> gets less successes, and blows sky-fraggin'-high (Deadly wound with
> over-damage).
> I'll give you guys a breather here...
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> Okay, so the limo's toast, that much I can wrap my head around. But,
> the folks inside the limo...there's three, let's say (the driver, the
> bigwig, and some guy who they're arguing with since he thinks it's the
> taxi he called. Poor fella). They, according to SR3, resist an attack
> of the same Power and Damage Level. Do Poncho's successes matter here?
> Can they just roll two tens and survive? Do they get the benefit of
> their Impact Armour? I tested this out...rolled a couple resistance
> tests...two out of three hapless goons lived. One got away with a
> Moderate Wound ("What wuzzat, a musquita?"). If I'd reduced it because
> of their Impact Armour, the other guy woulda lived, and Mr. Moderate
> might have been untouched (and probably devoted his life to God).
> So, to recap:
> 1) Do Poncho's successes raise the Damage Level for the passengers?
> 2) Does the passenger's Impact Armour help?
> 3) What's the modifier for firing at a moving vehicle?
> 4) Did I spell Kookaburra right?
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> Thanks in advance,
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