# Two Scales *The Heavy Armory, Siege Engines, Great Guns, and Vehicle Weapons for Exodus NDS. Source: https://exodusnds.com/sourcebooks/heavy-armory/two-scales* > **One point at vehicle scale is ten points at personal scale.** That holds for damage, for Armor, and for Blast. A tank with Armor 4 has the equivalent of Resistance 40. A gun that deals 5 Hull Damage deals 50 damage to a person. This chapter gives the whole procedure for every case where the two scales meet. It agrees with *The Starship Armory* and with the Siege quality of *The Ranged Armory*. ## A Heavy Weapon Against a Person 1. Make the attack. A person is Scale 1, so a Standard gun adds 2 Bane Dice and a Heavy one 3. 2. On a hit, multiply the Hull damage, including Successes, by 10. 3. Subtract the target's Resistance. The rest is Wounds. 4. Critical Injuries are inflicted and rolled as for any weapon. **Blast X** at vehicle scale: spend 2 Boons, and every person within Short range of the point of impact suffers X times 10 damage, less Resistance. **Canister, grape, and shrapnel** exist because round shot is a poor way to hit a person. They are in the ammunition tables of Chapters 8 and 10. **Cover.** A person inside or behind a vehicle or a structure is protected by its Armor. Resolve the attack against the cover. ### The Edge of It A player character who is hit by a vehicle-scale weapon may spend a Story Point to have been caught at the edge of the shot. The character suffers half the damage, after multiplying and before Resistance. ## A Personal Weapon Against a Vehicle or a Structure There are three cases, and a weapon is only ever one of them. ### An Ordinary Weapon 1. Work out damage at personal scale: the weapon's damage plus Successes. 2. The target's Resistance is its **Armor times 10**, reduced by the weapon's Pierce. 3. Divide what gets through by 10 and round down. That is Hull Damage. A musket, a rifle, or a machine gun can hurt an unarmoured cart, car, or boat this way, slowly. It cannot hurt anything with Armor 2. A pistol never hurts a ship. ### A Weapon with Siege X **Siege** is mass: a trebuchet stone, a powder keg, a mortar bomb. It sits between the two scales, and it multiplies against people as well as walls. 1. Multiply the weapon's damage plus Successes by X. Against a **person**, that is the damage, before Resistance. 2. Against a **vehicle or a structure**, divide by 10 and round down for Hull damage, then subtract Armor. | Weapon | Hull damage | Against Armor 2 | Against Armor 4 | |:--|:--|:--|:--| | Rifle, damage 8, 2 Successes | 1, only against Armor 0 | Nothing | Nothing | | Heavy Machine Gun, 12, Breach 1, 2 Successes | 1 | Nothing: 1 Armor is left | Nothing | | Ballista, 13, Siege 3, 1 Success | 4 | 2 | Nothing | | Counterweight Trebuchet, 14, Siege 6, 1 Success | 9 | 7 | 5 | | Powder Keg, 14, Siege 3 | 4 | 2 | Nothing | | Reloadable Rocket Launcher, 14, Breach 3, 2 Successes | 4 | 4 | 3 | | Anti-Tank Guided Missile, 18, Breach 4, 1 Success | 7 | 7 | 7 | ### A Weapon with Breach X **Breach** is a weapon built to defeat armour: a shaped charge, a rocket, an armour-piercing round. It does nothing extra to a person. 1. Against a **vehicle or a structure**, multiply the weapon's damage plus Successes by X, divide by 10, and round down for Hull damage. 2. Subtract the target's Armor, **ignoring X points of it**. 3. Against a **person**, the weapon deals its printed damage. No weapon has both Siege and Breach. Neither uses Pierce against a vehicle. A weapon cannot inflict a Critical Hit on a vehicle unless it dealt at least 1 Hull Damage. ## Siege and Breach for the Other Armories When this book is in use, the heavy weapons of the other armories carry one of the two qualities. The engines of *The Ranged Armory* already carry Siege. | Book | Weapon | Quality | |:--|:--|:--| | *The Black Powder Armory* | Swivel Gun, Breech-Loading Swivel, War Rocket, Powder Charge, Dynamite Stick | Siege 2 | | | Powder Keg | Siege 3 | | | Petard | Breach 3 | | *The Modern Armory* | Anti-Materiel Rifle; grenade launchers firing the dual-purpose round | Breach 1 | | | Disposable Rocket Launcher | Breach 2 | | | Reloadable Rocket Launcher, Guided Missile Launcher | Breach 3 | | | Plastic Explosive Charge, Dynamite Bundle | Siege 2 | | | Satchel Charge | Siege 3 | | | Breaching Charge | Breach 3 | | | Limpet Mine, Anti-Tank Mine | Breach 4 | | *The Stellar Armory* | Rail Lance, Beam Cannon, Shear Projector | Breach 2 | | | Plasma Cannon | Siege 2 | | | Missile Tube | Breach 3 | **Charges set together** add their Hull damage. Twenty Powder Kegs in a mine gallery deal 80. ## Shooting at Cars An unarmoured car, cart, or small boat is hard to stop with small arms and easy to shoot through. **The people inside** have light cover from the bodywork, and heavy cover if the engine or a load is between them and the shooter. They are attacked as people. **A part of the vehicle** may be aimed at. Add 2 Bane Dice. | Part | A hit that deals 5 or more damage | |:--|:--| | A wheel or tyre | Handling and Speed are each 1 worse. With two gone, the driver makes a Hard Operate check each round or loses control | | The engine | 1 System Damage | | The steering, the rudder, a mast | The driver adds 2 Bane Dice to Operate checks until it is repaired | This applies to vehicles of Scale 3 or less with Armor 0 or 1. Against Armor 2 or more, the part is armoured too. ## People Inside Damage to a vehicle does not pass to the people in it, with three exceptions. - A Critical Hit result that says so. - An open vehicle, an open deck, or a gun without a turret. Blast reaches the people on it. - A vehicle that is disabled while moving. Each occupant makes an Average Reflexes check or suffers 3 Wounds, and 6 if it was flying or at Speed 4 or more.