A couple miscellaneous questions, Dealing with Medusas Options

[DocMortand]

Before anyone asked, yes I've done a search...but if I've missed something because my search-fu is weak, point me at 'em.

A couple questions got raised in the group regarding drones.

A) The Medusa has mixed armor (4 points normal, 4 points ablative). How is this resolved in melee and ranged combat? The ablative rules are a little confusing...and which armor would be resolved first? The ablative (which isn't hardened, but is on the outside) or the normal (which is hardened and on the inside)? I found the previous thread where this was brought up, but it was never really answered.

B) It says in Brainscan that all physical spells except elemental manipulations have a target number of OR+Body (in the case of Medusas, it's 10+3=13). The group did NOT like the fact that you had to roll 13+ to levitate a Medusa - is this the proper ruling? It's according to the book, I think...but the rules are wierd. The relevant quote in BBB is under Vehicles and Spells, where it says the same. The argument against is the magic fingers, where in the spell description it says it's ideal for bomb disposal...but how "ideal" is that if your target number is 8-10? The argument for is that they already don't get a magic resistance...so 1 success and you have a Medusa play toy (which is exactly what happened in my campaign...3 medusas levitated, one used as a pinata by called shots to bypass armor) I have no problem with a Medusa play toy, as long as it's difficult to do it. :)

[BTW, if anyone is curious to read the run posts for my group, it's here at Ghosts of Dallas]