How does armor work in World of Darkness?

Armor is rated in terms of the kinds of attacks against which it protects: ballistic and all other kinds. So, if a target wears a Kevlar vest and a shot is fired at him, the attack roll suffers a -2 penalty for the armor. Any successes rolled in the attack do damage, but it’s bashing instead of lethal.

How long is a turn in world of darkness?

Combat Turns. A combat turn is thought of to last 3 seconds.

How does damage work in world of darkness?

When you take damage, you mark off boxes starting at the top. Each type of damage is marked differently: bashing damage is marked with a slash. If your health track is full of bashing damage, further bashing damage is treated as lethal and you are considered Crippled. Lethal damage is marked with an X.

How does health work VTM?

The lowest level marked off on your health track determines your overall health level, which gives you penalties to dice pools and movement speed. When you take damage, you mark off boxes starting at the top. Each type of damage is marked differently: bashing damage is marked with a slash.

How many dice do you need for VTM?

The Vampire game uses any set of 10 ten-sided dice.

What Dice do I need for vampire the masquerade?

All World of Darkness games, including the old Vampire: the Masquerade and the new Requiem use only ten-sided dice.

How does armor work in World of tanks?

The same 150mm/50° armor if hit by an AP/APCR/APDS round would “normalize” to 150mm/45° giving it an armor value of 212mm. This means that an AP/APCR/APDS round would only need to roll a penetration value of over 212mm instead of 233mm to penetrate. In update 8.6 for World of Tanks HEAT shells were changed.

How does armor work in Chronicles of Darkness?

If your character wears armor rated 3, three dice are removed from the attacker’s dice pool. On page 170, under the Armor Chart, Leather (Hard) is listed as 1/0 for rating, 2 for Strength, -1 for Defense, 0 for Speed. The two values of contention here are the rating and defense.

Which is an example of how armor works?

As stated earlier only one of the angles is normalized if it is armored both horizontally and vertically which helps armor like this retain its strength. A good example is the tier 10 Russian heavy tank IS-4 which both suffers and benefits from compound angles.

How to find out the effectiveness of armor?

To find out the effective armor you need to do a little math. In this situation you would do (150/cos (50°)) which comes out to be 233mm of effective armor. As you can see this is much greater than the 150mm listed value and no wonder why a gun with 160mm-200mm of penetration would struggle going through it with most of its shots.