[DL] Re: deadlands-digest.20020905-1

[Doplegnger@aol.com]

In a message dated 9/5/02 11:39:31 PM, owner-deadlands@gamerz.net writes:

<< Question: When armor takes damage during combat, how much is inflicted on 
the armor for durability and reliabiliy purposes? I have both S&R and 
Coligium and seem to be over looking the rule. I understand how gizmos take 
damage from weapons, but what about armor? Does one roll regular damage dice 
seperatly? Or modified damage? Divide the damage done by a certain number? 
Thanks in advance.
 >>

they never really addressed this until hell on earth, where they state (and I 
could be wrong because I'm doing this from memory) that every wound taken by 
the wearer reduces the armor in that area by one point per wound level.   
that seems a bit harsh, personally I would recommend working it like cyborg 
systems, when wounded, roll one d6.   if the roll is equal to or lower than 
the number of wounds caused by the attack, the armor is damaged and loses one 
point of AV.

but combat already takes too long, so what I do is this.

you're armor will never need repair while you are alive, but when you die, 
your armor will give up the ghost with you (if you were killed while wearing 
armor, obviously the armor wasnm't doing it's job properly enough)

this way we don't have to worry too muchabout armor degredation during 
combat,  but at the same time the posse isn't able to loot every black hat 
they see for a kevlar vest and trade them all in for a new pickup truck.