Re: [HoE] Junker/Armor ?

["Steve Crow" <crow_steve@hotmail.com>]

>In a message dated 02/29/2000 1:09:33 PM Eastern Standard Time,
>crow_steve@hotmail.com writes:
>
><< The only real limiting factor seems to be Junk-armor "weight", but the
>  Load-carrying rules don't seem to be that harmful or restrictive to make 
>up
>  for the huge advantages of cheap, cost-effective Junk-armor.
>
>  Any comments welcome. >>
>
>    Well the main problem is stability.  After all you nice new armor could
>just vanish on you.   Also you have to check each time the armor is hit and
>that can add up real fast.
>    For normal armor, it is not as good but it will only disappear when it
>gets blown away.
>

Well, I mentioned it in an earlier post, but...given the TN of 6, and access 
to the Flow Trick, do folks really find Stability (except on the high-end TN 
stuff) a significant problem?

Given that a 5-8 result on the Stability chart is actually beneficial to 
you, and given that Stability of 21+ helps you get to those numbers (or, 
admittedly, the numbers beneath them that do minorly hurt you), it just 
hasn't been much of a problem.  Given it only takes 60 minutes (tops), and 
the aforementioned cost of $132 (with which you could build 5 full-body 
suits better than a Kevlar vest), I guess I'm not really seeing the downside 
of Stability as a balancing factor in this particular instance.

Granted, having the suit conk out in the middle of combat or head to the 
Dustbin is by no stretch a good thing.  But given the cost-savings, it seems 
well worth the risk...

>O.W. Jones Inventor and Gunsmith


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