Re: closest Space/Ultratech equiv to the giant power armors used by Marines in Starcr
 

Given limitation value, and frankly reality for most such things, I wouldn't mind changing 'blunt trauma' to 'nonpenetrating trauma' and applying it to additional damage types. Or just giving all wide area burning attacks some additional ability to penetrate armor.

Re: closest Space/Ultratech equiv to the giant power armors used by Marines in Starcr
 

There is the "your metal armor heats up" aspect but I don't know how we adapt that into trait terms...

It's almost like to emulate realism you couldn't use Innate Attack alone, you'd need to do other stuff like "Control Heat" and "Obscure" to reflect how a flamethrower would increase temperature in addition to burning, or how the continuous stream would obstruct vision.

To qualify for Obscure I think an attack would need to blot out an entire hex though...

Unless maybe you could take "Bombardment" limitation to reflect how it's not a complete hex blackout but just partial obscuration. That sounds pretty spot on TBH, you're just rolling to see if someone suffers penalties rather than if they suffer damage.

Would be further neat if we could somehow tie output (damace dice, levels of obscure) to the margin rolled on Bombardment

Re: closest Space/Ultratech equiv to the giant power armors used by Marines in Starcr
 

Why would you want that? Armor blocking flames and the like works very well as far as I know...

When wide area burning-like effects defeat armor well, it's usually because the armor isn't sealed and thus lets hot gasses or burning liquid fuel get inside.

Re: closest Space/Ultratech equiv to the giant power armors used by Marines in Starcr
 

The armor would function like ablative normally, but if damage exceeded it, it would both ablate away and completely fail to protect the target. Which would be pretty nasty. The closest analogue I can think of is the shielding in the Strike Suit Zero computer game, at least when it comes to physical attacks - the shield completely fails to protect you against collisions, and also drops if you bump into anything (it also functions poorly against guns, although fortunately the enemies seem to exclusively use energy weapons against you).

Re: closest Space/Ultratech equiv to the giant power armors used by Marines in Starcr
 

The Limited (Cutting) is a limitation on Ablative, not a limitation on the DR, reducing Ablative from a -80% to a -48% limitation. I take it my nested limitations caused confusion and should have been more explicit.