Vehicles and Lightning Bolts, Metalic armor on vehicles? Options Track this topic Email this topic Print this topic Download this topic Subscribe to this forum Display Modes Outline Switch to: Standard Switch to: Linear+

[TinkerGnome]

Now, one of my friends and I had a short debate on how powerful lightning bolt is against vehicles. When I got home, I did some research and have to say that he was wrong in that it's not as powerful as he said, but it's more powerful than I was upholding.

Namely, my question is this:

I assume vehicle armor is composed largely of ceramics and composites. This armor may not be 100% effective against an electrical attack, but I certainly wouldn't expect it to be useless. From SR3, the damage of a lightning bolt spell would be halved and staged down before comparing it to vehicle armor. Thus, a 6D lightning bolt would become 3S.

Let's say the target is a Doberman (armor 6). Armor 6 vs. strength 3 seems like no comparison, even if you penalize it because of the nature of lightning bolt.

However, Rigger 3, page 27 they give a sketchy example in which this spell does an M wound to the drone.

What am I missing?