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Gardensnake
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Posted: Saturday, May 21, 2011 at 9:52 PM
Okay,
I've got a question about armor. I understand that armor does not stack with natural armor and with 2 armors that both have a hard rating only the highest applies. Now that we have what I do know out of the way, I'll present my question. For example let's say I take a To-tanem warrior unit give them medium armor and a shield. I know that the medium armor supercedes my natural armor and my armor rating would be 6. What would my hard rating be? If I got hit by something doing a damage rating of 4 would I have the armor rating 2 from the shield or would the hard rating of my natural rating of 3 still apply? Thanks, William
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Akori
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Posted: Sunday, May 22, 2011 at 11:17 AM
Your would have a Hard Rating of 3. As you mentioned Hard Ratings don't stack and you use the highest of the two.
Your example bove is exactly why I run my To-Tanem naked w/just Normal shield. No point paying 4 pts. to give them medium and only get one more point of armor. Better to have the unit save on 5's instead of 6's and use the 40 points saves somewhere else.
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Gardensnake
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Posted: Sunday, May 22, 2011 at 1:49 PM — Edited on 2011-05-22 13:49:37.0
Akori said:Okay, not arguing just wanting to make sure I understand. In the situation I laid out above the Hard 3 from the natural armor would for lack of a better phrase "Bleed through" even though the medium armor rating of 4 supercedes the natural rating. I agree with your point about the points being spent on medium armor being better used elsewhere but I wrote it out that way to illustrate my confusion on the rule. Thanks, William btw at least give your poor to-tanem a loin cloth. naked? sheesh
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CBP3
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Posted: Monday, May 23, 2011 at 2:15 PM
He likes naked rock muppets.
ToTanem really don't need to bother with anything less than medium armor- and even that is a close call. Shields, I'd argue that large shields are worthwhile for them, but that's just me (I've got a missile fire phobia)...
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