Reign of Steel: Spoofing the IFF and other fun

[RogerBW]

Originally Posted by LokRobster

I re-read UltraTech and Will To Live last night about this. I didn't get the impression that EMP rounds needed to penetrate DR in order to have an effect. Don't they just need to get close enough for the target computer brain to be within the area of effect? Unless the robot has a built-in Faraday cage I would think an electro-magnetic pulse effect would go right through armor... and Will To Live points out that pretty much only the AIs themselves are Hardened.

Note the description in Ultra-Tech: there's an armor divisor on the resistance roll.