Is it possible to actuall kill someone wearing a lined coat (Ballistic 4) with a single bullet from a 6L damage coded light-pistol?

Yes it is! (But VERY unlikely!)

I've done a small piece of software that tests the scenario a number of time...

Here are the stats:

Attacker:
Firearm Skill: 6
Combat Pool Used: 6
Target Number To Hit: 4
Base Damage: 6L

Defender:
Body Attribute: 4
Combat Pool Used: 4
Ballistic Armor: 4

Number of Tests: 1,000,000 (1 million)

Results:
Miss: 248
Dodged: 123394
Totally Soaked: 581365
Before Soaking L: 2875
Before Soaking M: 69607
Before Soaking S: 314236
Before Soaking D: 613034
After Soaking L: 265184
After Soaking M: 29082
After Soaking S: 725
After Soaking D: 2

2 deaths on 1 million tries! lol

If you have other tests you want me to perform, just ask... ^_^

Who says a Predator III is better than a Beretta?

Dude, this is exactly why a smartlink-2 is absolutely, positively necessary.

Can someone recall me the rules for Called Shot? I'm gonna try this by targetting unprotected area...

You can also see that a VERY FEW number of bullets were totally dodged (Combat Pool Success exceeding attackers successes)

85 dodges out of 1 million bullet... This smartlink sure helped to track the target! ^_^

The smartlink made a substantial difference in the number of times any damage at all was sustained, raising from approximately 1/3 to 1/2.

Let's try again with no Smartlink against a Troll (Body 10) that doesn't wear any armor and doesn't bother to use dices from his combat pool...

You'll probably be surprised...

Miss: 240
Dodged: 0
Soaked: 9774
Before L: 3006
Before M: 69466
Before S: 313727
Before D: 613561
After L: 65566
After M: 234211
After S: 425776
After D: 264433

26.4% of the bullets kills the Troll!

Trolls... don't go our without your lined-coat!

ouch, nice to know that you can (in theory atleast) stop a troll in its tracks with a gun doing L damage

hmm, would be interesting to see how many times the shooter got a rule of 1 result. maybe allso for the target (or are they immune from that effect? i dont recall).

Okay. Still want to called shot to bypass armor then (per FAQ). You'd be 8M/TN 4, no armor.

I can't tell you how many times I've come in on a called shot with my Morresey Elite w/ Glazers after my katana-wielding elf friend burns up all their combat pool.

Don't forget that always fun second shot on a semi-auto!

Which ought to really screw up those statistics, particularly on dodging, if they take a wound on the first shot.

And in this case (statistically), it really comes down to who has the most Karma Pool to blow on attack/defense.

I'm working on doing this out mathematically. Two things: first off, you've got an abnormally high number of misses. Secondly, how did you allocate pool? While I'll have to look at it more, it looks on the surface like dodging is never advantageous (example: trying to dodge a single-success attack with four points of pool yields a 93.75% chance of success, and then there's an 86.806% chance of soaking with four points of body, leaving a total 99.175% chance of no damage. Compare to soaking with four points of Body and four of pool (three successes, TN 2, 8 dice) for a 99.956% chance of no damage), so it shouldn't be represented.

~J

My last group had a lady who used the Walther with smartlink 2 and made a lot of called shots usually to bypass armor. I think she used ExExplosive so the damage was 8L. 2 shots (SA) usually killed what she was shooting at. Second shot usually wasn't a called shot to help keep TN reasonable.

Had a lot of one shot kills by aiming then firing the called shot. 12D6 rolled at TN3 (4 base - 2 smlk2 + 2 called shot - 1 aim) doing 8L damage with no armor to stage damage down.

*runs around wildly in circles, waving arms in the air*

Arrrrrrghh!! You can't bypass armor with Called Shots! AHHHHHHH! Broken! Broken! Abstract! Broken!

*runs out of the room*

avoiding hitting a vest by putting a round through an un armored forehead is broken? I can't think so. but that's just me. of course, as a GM I need some easy way of puting down rabid PCs. the rules as written make very little sence to me (up damage or bypass armor?) (trying desperatly to cover up the fact that I missed the wink on the prev post. Damn!)

No good can come of the called shot conversation continuing.

Are you kidding? Instead of like dying in a car accident or something, someone might actually stay here and argue for the 5,437,983rd time how bypassing armor with a called shot is sixteen different kinds of brokestract. That's good, isn't it?

No. I'd rather see the car accident, to be honest.

Let me get this straight. You'd rather a human being died than hear the 5,437,983rd version of this argument? You heartless commie.

These threads are trainwrecks in slow motion anyway. I'll take the real thing.

I think a 'called' shot should require a perception test by the bullet you're firing to see if it actually heard you.
<grin, duck and run>

No, no, no. A called shot really means 'a really tough shot that you announce beforehand in order to impress your friends when you make it.'

"Out the window, over the house, through that tree, bank off that tractor blade, knock the cigarette outta that guy's mouth, into that guy's ear, nothin' but net."