Adapting The Morrow Project to GURPS

[Rupert]

Originally Posted by Fred Brackin

Flexible HT/UT armor is so good against Cutting so it will stop fragments efficiently. However, 4e probably does fragmentation wrong and this makes such armor unrealistically effective v. machetes.

If (as a simple fix) you change Fragmentation damage from Cutting to Piercing you can change the armors in question to Piercing/Everything else.

Or makes fragments have armour penetration of (0.5), which is how I'd change things - fragments aren't really piercing, as they tend to be jagged and sharp-edged and not leave nice little holes.

OTOH, kevlar is pretty cut-resistant. The problems kevlar vests had with knives was with them being used to stab - and that's impaling damage which GURPS specifically notes it as being weak against.

One amusing effect of this is that standard (impaling damage) arrows penetrate vests better than armour-piercing (pi(2)) arrows.