I've not read the relevant sections, but I'd imagine that the plates, once added, only protect very specific locations, and fail to protect 100% throughout the remaineder of locations involved. In short, if frontal and rear plates were added, it wouldn't protect against incoming side attacks. I'd have to dig up the book to see if this were the case or not.
> -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Roger Burton West > Sent: Monday, September 28, 2009 10:54 AM > To: The GURPSnet mailing list > Subject: Re: [gurps] Tactical Vests and Plates. > > On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 10:50:31AM -0300, Bira wrote: > > >So, there's several flexible armors in Ultra-Tech and High-Tech (for > >4e), which can optionally take rigid plates as add-ons. > Let's take the > >TL9 Tactical Vest from UT as an example: It's DR 18 against piercing > >and cutting damage, DR 7 against everything else, and it's also > >flexible. It also has optional plate add-ons that give it > +34 DR. From > >my reading, that would upgrade it from DR 18/7 to DR 52/41. Is this > >correct? > > Yup, those are hard armor plates, and they have the same DR > against everything. ("Its trauma plates provide full > protection against all damage types.") > > >Also, will the vest remain "flexible" with the plate insert, > or does it > >effectively turn into rigid armor? > > Think of it as two separate armor layers. The flexible layer > is closer to the skin than the plate in modern armor vests - > so consider the last para under "Flexible Armor and Blunt > Trauma" on B379, apply DR34 against the incoming attack, then > score what's left against the DR18/DR7 vest including the > possibility of blunt trauma. > > R > _______________________________________________ > GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> > http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l > _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
