The Armourer · Chapter 6

Modern Armour

Eleven entries, from a leather jacket to a bomb suit. Each prints From, the first period in which it is found: 1939 (in service by 1945), 1946 (first appears 1946 to 1989), or 1990 (first appears 1990 or later).

Modern armour is built against one threat at a time.

Built against	Entries
Ballistic	Concealed Vest, Tactical Vest, Plate Carrier, Infantry Body Armour
Blast	Flak Jacket, Infantry Body Armour, Bomb Suit
Blades and clubs	Leather Jacket, Stab Vest, Riot Gear
Fire	Fire Proximity Suit, Bomb Suit

Ammunition from The Modern Armory. Armour-Piercing loads have Pierce +2 against armour and cover: apply it to the armour's Resistance bonus. Hollow Point treats the target's armour as 1 higher: add 1 to the bonus of any armour worn, to a maximum of +3. Neither changes Deflecting.

Leather Jacket

Motorcycle leathers, flight jacket, heavy coat

Heavy leather. It turns a knife edge and does nothing else. It is clothing, and nobody remarks on it.

Stab Vest

Slash vest, anti-stab armour

Laminate or fine mail made to stop a blade. Prison and police issue. It deflects both Thrusting and Cutting and offers nothing special against a bullet.

Concealed Vest

Soft body armour, undercover vest, Level II vest

Woven ballistic fibre worn under a shirt. Concealable 2, and Deflecting 1 (Ballistic).

The weave that catches a bullet parts for a point: Vulnerable 1 (Thrusting) means a knife thrust ignores its bonus.

Tactical Vest

Patrol vest, soft armour with trauma plate

An external soft-armour vest. It is the standard police vest: +2 and Deflecting 1 (Ballistic), worn openly.

Flak Jacket

Flak vest, fragmentation vest

Layers of ballistic nylon or steel plates in a vest, made to stop shell fragments. Deflecting 2 (Blast). It gives its +2 against a bullet and no more.

Plate Carrier

Rifle plates, hard armour, ceramic plates

A harness holding rigid plates front and back. Deflecting 2 (Ballistic) is the best protection against gunfire in the book. It needs Might 2.

Riot Gear

Riot armour, crowd-control suit

Padded hard shells over the torso and limbs. It is built for bricks, clubs, and blades, and it is the one modern body armour with Melee Defense. It needs Might 2.

Infantry Body Armour

Combat armour, full battle armour, improved outer vest

Rifle plates, soft armour to the groin and neck, and fragment protection together. It is the +3 of the period and it needs Might 3.

Bomb Suit

EOD suit, blast suit

Forty kilograms of blast protection. Deflecting 2 (Blast) and Deflecting 1 (Fire). It needs Might 4, and the wearer adds 2 Bane Dice to every Agility check regardless of Might. Nobody fights in one by choice.

Fire Proximity Suit

Aluminised suit, crash-rescue suit

A reflective suit with its own air. Deflecting 2 (Fire), and sealed against smoke.