But the ceramic fractures and becomes less effective as huge chunks of it are displaced. If we look at Bullet-resistant protection as we have it in our modern day, typically rifle-graded plates will have the strike face covered with ceramic, which helps to dissipate a large amount of velocity to the point where the centimetre of steel behind it is not penetrated and you don't end up with a bullet in your body. Personally, I would not bother with this. If you want you could accumulate the amount of damage the armour absorbed and set a maximum amount before It becomes useless, but I'd set it at a large amount. What are the odds that the next bullet will hit at the exact same place as the first? Would it pass through if it did? I don't think so. The damage that went through is the impact, not indication that the armour is broken. Assuming he hits the torso (there are spot rules for hit locations that may come into play here), then there is a bullet size spot that might be embossed in the armour, but no hole.

Say you have armour protecting your torso and someone shoots a bullet at you. IMO there is no reason that armour would lose effectiveness as you described. Is the enemies armor now 35 armor points? And so on until his armor is 0 and he receives actual damage to his HP after this? Or are all attacks to this enemy fruitless unless attacked for 41 or more damage with a single attack? In which case, 41 damage would only deal 1 damage of HP. On the next attack, is his armor still intact reducing damage by 1 for the entire battle and after? To me, I would think that the armor is now broken, and any subsequent attacks would deal full damage.Įxample 2: enemy has 40 armor points (Ex: Gla'aki has 40-point integument listed under armor). He is attacked and receives 5 damage but because of armor he only receives 4 damage. But does the armor become ineffective after that? Can armor be whittled down slowly over numerous attacks?Įxample 1: enemy has armor worth 1 armor point. I'm sure this has been addressed before, but I just couldn't find a solid answer anywhere.įor armor, I understand that it reduces the damage dealt by however many hit points the armor is. I am relatively new to the RPG scene and am hosting a CoC game as keeper with some friends soon.

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