Re: [HOE] Question about vehicles

[Robert Holland <robert@macauley.com>]

>At 05:37 PM 10/3/2002 -0700, you wrote:
>>It seems to be that vehicles are destroyed to easy.   Maybe I have miss
>>understood the rules.  The way I understand it, small arms fire does half
>>damage to a vehicle.  Which means that a 20 point shot from a rifle will do
>>10 point of damage to the vehicle, this same shot will only do 3 wounds to a
>>person.  Am I understanding this correctly?
>
>Road Warriors, p46
>
>Small arms (pistols under .50, crossbows, etc): div by 10
>Light Weapons (.50 to 25mm; light antiaircraft and heavier machine guns): 
>div by 5
>Heavy weapons (>25mm <75mm: siege weaponry, light anti-vehicle): div by 2
>Anti-vehicle weapons (>=75mm, antitank): full
>
>  - Martin

Incidentally, this makes it REALLY hard to damage anything that uses the vehicle
rules. I can see this for stuff like pistols and crossbows, but you'd think a
handful of gangers emptying assault rifles into a factory-standard Toyota would
slow it down more than it does. I don't have my books with me, but I seem to
recall that putting a burst of 5.56mm through a standard road tire at
point-blank range will not usually deflate it, and that seems odd, run-flat
tires or no.

--Robert Holland