Hiya
Just wondering how others play a certain situation. The hand-to-hand combat bod has the drop on a target, so he goes in for a called shot to the throat to silence the victim. +3 for ambush, -2 for called shot. The knife hits with one hit, but the helmet's there (armour 1+1 for the knife) negating the damage.
Yet the attack was to go for where the armour wasn't (ie the called shot). Would you...
• Say the called shot is a -3 for the throat (harder to hit but easier damage)
• Say tough, the helmet just got in the way (easier to hit just unlucky)
• Say the way to do the attack is a grapple then grapple attack (but both parties fall to the ground)
• have another house rule to accommodate?
rgds nick
Long and short of it is that the rules in Twilight for this don't make much sense at all, cuz helmets make it easier to do what you're thinking about to someone. You grab the helmet with your weak hand, crank it back as far and as hard as you can, as if you're trying to make their helmet touch their ass, exposing the neck, and then you start stabbing the hell out of them as many times as you can downward into the chest along the neck and upper chest. Wearing a helmet in a hand to hand fight has its ups and downs, cuz it's way harder to bonk you, but it sort of sucks, cuz it's an extremely solid grab point attached to your head that doesn't usually exist, so you can kind of grab someone and bulldog them around by the head if they've got a helmet on in a way you can't really do at all if they're not wearing one.