Graver said:
Friend of the Dork said:
Sirion said:
this is again a matter of does armour stack with the machine trait or not... if it doesn't it comes down to 10 damage reduction
You know what, with the Gun Servitor I think it's 10. I just noticed it has Armor: None (6), Machine (4) and the Armor plating trait (which gives +2 armor).. so in this case it seems like it has total 6 APs.
With the Combat Servitor it's another matter entirely as they are decked in Carapace (6) and has the same traits.. for some reason the APs are not added together though, or the guy who wrote the entries messed up.
I've been playing my servitors as terminators basically, almost invulnerable to normal guns. The Acolytes have always managed though. Especially Combat Servitors with their ridiculous low speed can be overcome with tactics when the Manstoppers are lacking.
I think that's just a goof-up in editing. It woudln't be the first.
After all, both the combat and gun servitor have a "6" listed in their armour section, just one with "carapace" listed and the other with "none". Likewise they both have the same armour giving traits in the same quantity. I think that perhaps the "carapace" found in the combat servitor is a hold-over from an earlier edition of the rules where the machine trait and armour plated hadn't been invented or worked differently and to show that servitors were half metal what-not, they figured it would be about equal to carapace armour, so gave it to them before realizing that they could achieve the same result with a trait or two.
Of course, that's just my guess. It just seems like an odd coincidence that both servitors have the same armour rating and traits to achieve that armour rating... which is also the armour rating of carapace...
Yes you might very well be right. Wanna ask Mark?
In any case, I may well have done it wrong all along - it would have made that encounter in TF alot harder. Of course, my acolytes still pretty good, especially against fresh acolytes.
In addition I will make superior quality servitors with even more armor so there can still exist 10 AP ones.. these will be rarer of course and mostly belong to the Haarlocks of old. These servitors ARE described as Ancient after all!