Re: [HOE] Question about vehicles

["Jeff Shoffner" <shoffner@esper.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


Isn't there some ruling about targetting specific parts?  I mean, hitting a
bunch of sheet metal is one thing, but shooting a tire should increase the
amount of damage it takes.

Jeff S