07-17-2012, 02:35 AM | #21 | |
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Re: Continuous Armor Divisors
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The Danish language RPG system Via Prudensiae does that, and while it may be an absolutely beautiful simulation of fighty stuff, it's not particularly playable. I haven't read the Survivable Guns issue yet, but it sounds as if there are some bad ideas in it, if the author expects people to do complicated arithmetic during play. GURPS' model where damage represents armour penetration (albeit with the rare AD), and then if armour is penetrated you do some simple arithmetic to find actual damage, is much more playable than VP. |
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07-17-2012, 07:50 AM | #22 |
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Re: Continuous Armor Divisors
It really doesn't require any extra math during play. When recording gun stats you just halve their damage and double their armor divisor. In play they work like any other gun.
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07-17-2012, 10:33 AM | #23 |
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Re: Continuous Armor Divisors
Of course, neither of the "real" -Tech books use Hardened. I think you might be able to adjust it's use in GURPS Ultra-Tech to be more like the specific armor rules in GURPS High-Tech. The same thing might also apply to realistic biological DR. That just leaves comic-book-y characters with Basic Set Hardened.
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07-17-2012, 11:15 AM | #24 |
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07-17-2012, 11:18 AM | #25 |
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Re: Continuous Armor Divisors
No, because that's not the way Hardened interacts with AD.
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07-17-2012, 11:25 AM | #26 |
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Re: Continuous Armor Divisors
It's not ever presented as Hardened outside of GURPS Ultra-Tech and doesn't appear to interact with Armor Divisors in the same way. If it was just Hardened (Shaped Charges Only) why isn't it just written that way?
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07-17-2012, 11:49 AM | #27 |
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Re: Continuous Armor Divisors
Because it's actually easier to write extra DR (shaped charges only). I don't recall if laminate armor is actually given an enhancement value in 4e, but if it were, it would almost certainly be priced as if it were a limited form of Hardened.
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07-17-2012, 12:09 PM | #29 |
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Re: Continuous Armor Divisors
It's actually annoying that we're given a standard procedure to use for countering Armour Divisors, and then a bicycle of a procedure is reinvented for HT.
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