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[Faraday]

Post wacky or deceptively deadly drone or vehicle concepts here!

I saw a fun little thing in the boards the other day and liked it plenty:

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One of my newest favorite weapons:

The Murdercycle
Harley Davidson Scorpion [-, 12,000]
[1 Slot] Armor 16 [6R, 3,200]
[2 Slots] Personal Protection 6 [12, 12,000]
[1 Slot] Ram Plate [6R, 2,500]
[1 Slot] Rigger Adaptation [4, 2,500]
[1 Slot] Rigger Coccoon (Basic) [8, 1,500]
Av: 12R
Cost: 33,700
Notes: +29 dice to resist ramming damage. As long as you have at least a 4 Body or a 3 Body with 2 points of Impact armor on your own, you can buy all the successes required to soak the damage you will receive on a ram (at max speed). The target, on the other hand, needs to figure out how to deal with 24P, -1/2 Impact.

But I think it could've been done with lower cost and an extra "pop" when the going gets tough.
I give you:
The Headless Murdercycle
Harley Davidson Scorpion [-, 12,000]
[1 Slot] Armor 16 [6R, 3,200]
[1 Slot] Ram Plate [6R, 2,500]
[1 Slot] Rigger Adaptation [4, 2,500]
[1 Slot] Motorcycle Gyro Stabilization [8, 2,400]
[2 slots] Termination System: Self Destruct[12F, 1,000]
Av: 12F
Cost: 23,600
Notes: The drone motorcycle will resist 12DV with 24 dice and likely keep driving, the target, on the other hand, needs to figure out how to deal with 24P, -1/2 Impact. If, somehow, the target requires more damage, you can detonate the bike itself for 14 (f).

This post has been edited by Faraday: Feb 23 2010, 08:54 AM

[Saint Sithney]

Basically, with the ramming plate, a vehicle takes a damage value two levels lower than the target. So at DV level 2xBOD the vehicle takes half level 2, which is 1xBOD and the target takes DV level 2+1 which is 3xBOD.

And it says that characters resist ramming damage with half Impact. I don't know if a vehicle fitted with hardened armor counts as a character in this instance.. I suppose a wall is a character. Any noun in existence is a character? I just feel like something with real structural support is quite different from, say, a guy wearing chain mail or thick padding.

[Neraph]

And it says that characters resist ramming damage with half Impact. I don't know if a vehicle fitted with hardened armor counts as a character in this instance.. I suppose a wall is a character. Any noun in existence is a character? I just feel like something with real structural support is quite different from, say, a guy wearing chain mail or thick padding.

In the case of ramming, full-auto and area-effect attacks, both passengers and vehicles resist the damage equally.

I don't know why you people try to justify things outside the rules. Vehicle armor is in effect Hardened, since Vehicles are immune to Stun damage, so as long as the modified DV of the attack does not exceed the modified AP of the vehicle, it does not even need to do a Damage Resistance Test, and that should get the effect you're talking about.