Re: [HOE] Question about vehicles

[Robert Holland <robert@macauley.com>]

>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.

I just checked my Road Warriors book, and it seems I was mistaken: three 5.56mm
rounds will, on average, kill a standard tire. (Barely.) Each round does 3d8
damage, average 15.4, divide by 10 and round down, get 1 point of Durability or
average per shot. Standard tires have 3 Durability, so that will do it.

Still seems a bit excessive, but not quite as bad as I'd thought.

--Robert Holland