| Armor is a Stat | |
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| Name | Armor |
| Alias | ARM |
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Relative ability to absorb damage; mode dependent. | |
Never discount the importance of good armor.
Armor
Armor determines a character's relative ability to absorb damage.
Armor is 0-10*, like most stats, and is purchased when you create a new Original Character (OC). OCs cannot buy more than 8* Armor in CharGen.
Armor can be upgraded.
Most Transformers have 50 Armor in robot mode.
An Armor of 60 in robot mode means you're wearing significantly more Armor than what the majority of Transformers are capable of wearing.
An Armor of 70 in robot mode means you're wearing Armor comparable to your faction's leader and high-end commanders. You're expected to provide good justification as to why you're capable of wearing Armor that only a small percentage of the Transformers are capable of doing so. Think about what special trait makes your OC capable of doing so.
Armor in other modes has a wider range of values.
On average, Armor reduces damage by about Armor/10. For for example, a character with 37 Armor would take, on average, 3.7 less damage from attacks than a character with 0 Armor would.
The tables below are merely a guideline. It is definitely possible, for example, to be an unusually fragile tank or an incredibly durable motorcycle, if one has a good enough justification.
Armor for Robot/Primary Modes
| Armor Level | Description |
| 0 | Humans |
| 1* | Human in Body Armor(Kevlar, Riot Gear) |
| 2* | Average Junkion Armor/Nebulan *master Armor |
| 3* | Tape/Minibot Armor |
| 4* | Weaker Transformer Armor |
| 5* | Average Transformer Armor |
| 6* | Tough TFs (Gestalt Team Leaders, Sunstreaker) |
| 7* | Very Tough TFs (Dinobots, Rodimus Prime) |
| 8* | Pretender/Ultra Magnus' Power Armor |
| 9* | Average Gestalt Armor |
| 10* | Cities (Metoplex, Trypticon) |
Armor for Vehicle/Alternate Modes
| Armor Level | Description |
| 1* | Unarmored vehicle (cars, motorcycles, hovercars) |
| 2* | Lightly armored (jets, copters, trucks, construction, artillery) |
| 3* | Moderately armored vehicles (APCs, A-10 Thunderbolts) |
| 4* | Average animal/monster mode armor |
| 5* | Armored vehicles (hovertanks, shuttlecraft) |
| 6* | Heavily armored vehicles (tanks) |
| 7* | Massively armored vehicles (USS Missouri, etc.) |
| 8* | |
| 9* | Dinobot dinosaur modes, Defense bases |
| 10* | Aircraft Carriers, Fortified Defense Stations |
Protections/Weaknesses
See: Protection/Weakness.
Additional Notes
- "Smaller" vehicles (relative to sizes in Size) may have lower armor.
- "Larger" vehicles (relative to sizes in Size) may have higher armor.
- Junkions generally have lower armor.
- Humans cannot have above 2* armor in human mode.
- Aliens may have whatever value of armor CharStaff deems reasonable.
- Quintessons generally have no or very low armor.