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Originally Posted by DanHoward
It would be pretty difficult to take a mail shirt off someone who wasn't unconscious or willingly co-operating. I think you'd need at least three people. One to hold the person down, another to hold his arms above his head, and a third to remove the mail.
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Flexible
torso armor should be nearly impossible to remove from a struggling foe. Using Technical Grappling, you'd probably need to inflict enough CP on the arms to make them effectively ST 0, then remove the shirt probably about 3/4 of the way. After this, you'd need to release your grip on the arms, grab the shirt, and pull it the rest of the way off. If your foe is quick, he can probably grab hold of the shirt as you try to pull the sleeves past his hands, and which point you have to wrest it from his grip before you can get it off.
So, yeah, unless you're ridiculously strong and/or have some people to help you, you'll need to knock your target out or find some other way to make them not resist the armor removal. This would really only apply to flexible torso armor, however - rigid armor falls off when you cut the straps, and flexible limb/extremity armor is something you can just pull off (although in the case of limb/hand armor, you may have to fight with your target grabbing the armor to prevent it from coming off).