The BulletProof Vacc Suit

[kaladorn]

Anyone else notice the TL-8 Vacc Suit has an armour value of 6?!?!?!

That'll stop not only 9mm pistols, but 7.62mm rifles and .50 BMG (12mm HMG) dead!

That's one frikkin' tough low tech vacc suit. Do we think today's vacc suit could take a .50 BMG hit and shrug it off? Or even a 7.62mm slug from an FN?

I think not.

Methinks that armour rating is... overblown.

Thoughts?

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In a more general sense, I'm trying to make a more detailed version of MT combat, but the vast gulf of armour values is really giving me grief.... cloth armour stops even very heavy weapons with ease. And combat armour? Why would you ever carry a gauss rifle? you can barely touch it.

 

[kaladorn]

Anyone else notice the TL-8 Vacc Suit has an armour value of 6?!?!?!

That'll stop not only 9mm pistols, but 7.62mm rifles and .50 BMG (12mm HMG) dead!

That's one frikkin' tough low tech vacc suit. Do we think today's vacc suit could take a .50 BMG hit and shrug it off? Or even a 7.62mm slug from an FN?

I think not.

Methinks that armour rating is... overblown.

Thoughts?

===========

In a more general sense, I'm trying to make a more detailed version of MT combat, but the vast gulf of armour values is really giving me grief.... cloth armour stops even very heavy weapons with ease. And combat armour? Why would you ever carry a gauss rifle? you can barely touch it.

 

[kaladorn]

Anyone else notice the TL-8 Vacc Suit has an armour value of 6?!?!?!

That'll stop not only 9mm pistols, but 7.62mm rifles and .50 BMG (12mm HMG) dead!

That's one frikkin' tough low tech vacc suit. Do we think today's vacc suit could take a .50 BMG hit and shrug it off? Or even a 7.62mm slug from an FN?

I think not.

Methinks that armour rating is... overblown.

Thoughts?

===========

In a more general sense, I'm trying to make a more detailed version of MT combat, but the vast gulf of armour values is really giving me grief.... cloth armour stops even very heavy weapons with ease. And combat armour? Why would you ever carry a gauss rifle? you can barely touch it.

 

[Blue Ghost]

I think the original suits for the Apollo astronauts (the boys who went to the moon) had helmets that could stop a small calibur round. This was by design to stop micrometeorites from killing the astronauts while they walked on the moon. How much it helped I don't know. But I do know that the fabric of the actual suits was extremely tough, and had to withstand the same conditions.

However, it's important to remember that a bullet is not meteor, and vice versa. So where there'd be some similarity in protection the projectiles and their forces are two different things entirely. This is where the referee needs to interpret what a vacc suit could protect against, and what it couldn't.

 

[Blue Ghost]

I think the original suits for the Apollo astronauts (the boys who went to the moon) had helmets that could stop a small calibur round. This was by design to stop micrometeorites from killing the astronauts while they walked on the moon. How much it helped I don't know. But I do know that the fabric of the actual suits was extremely tough, and had to withstand the same conditions.

However, it's important to remember that a bullet is not meteor, and vice versa. So where there'd be some similarity in protection the projectiles and their forces are two different things entirely. This is where the referee needs to interpret what a vacc suit could protect against, and what it couldn't.

 

[Blue Ghost]

I think the original suits for the Apollo astronauts (the boys who went to the moon) had helmets that could stop a small calibur round. This was by design to stop micrometeorites from killing the astronauts while they walked on the moon. How much it helped I don't know. But I do know that the fabric of the actual suits was extremely tough, and had to withstand the same conditions.

However, it's important to remember that a bullet is not meteor, and vice versa. So where there'd be some similarity in protection the projectiles and their forces are two different things entirely. This is where the referee needs to interpret what a vacc suit could protect against, and what it couldn't.