MilSpec is heavily Forbidden and military equipment, so when a cop sees you with it, or a SINner for that matter, the first thing they do is run and while they're running they'll ask for the army to send in the big guns. And if a sniper sets up at half a mile distance and attacks with a Ranger Arms APDS with 4 net hits, even my heavily boosted Human Street Sam would take damage, nevermind that mage with 3 Body. And we haven't even brought in the vehicle guns, with helicopters spray-painting you with Vigilants or tougher stuff.
The problem is, your heavily boosted human street sam actually wouldn't take that much damage.
Lets use your example. Someone plugs you with four net hits with an APDS Ranger Arms. 18P, -9 AP. You're a human Sam with 5 Body, let's say. Now you're pretty cool to be wearing the armor, so you've got some 'ware; aluminium bones and Orthoskin. That gives you 27 armor, 23 of which is hardened. Now, that's reduced to 18 armor, 14 of which is hardened, so you're taking some physical damage. You roll 25 to soak, and you get 7 automatic, for an average of 15 soaked. That means, if you got plugged in the head by a sniper using the most powerful sniper rifle in the game, miles away, who scored 4 net hits on you, you are
slightly injured.The rank and file run up and their anti-armor specialist fires a literal anti-tank rocket at you. 24P, -4AP. Your modified armor is 23, with 19 hardened, so hey, still physical damage. Your average soak comes out to 10+10 automatic, for an average of 20. Yeah, you're going to take that anti-tank rocket to the face and walk out limping. Mind you, only you walk out limping, because everything else around you has been destroyed.
They bring out The Troll. He's a big troll. He's holding a big assault cannon. It's the equivalent of a light tank. 17P, -6AP, and let's give them 2 hits. Average soak of 9, with 9 automatic. 1 damage. One. That's what the light tank gun did. And it's
stun damage. Hell, if it had gotten 1 hit, you wouldn't have even noticed it!
Finally the chopper swings around and unloads it's heavy machine gun. 12P, -8 AP, and after riddling you with bullets they score 5 hits. Your armor is 18, so guess what, it's stun damage again. That's right, you just took like 10 heavy machine gun armor piercing rounds to center mass, and rather then going Dancing Murphy, they're just falling flattened to the floor. But hey, at least it still managed to do some damage! Yep, 2 stun damage. That's a
lot, right?
Now hold up.
Back up.
You are proposing that, on the
rumor that someone is wearing heavy military armor, the corporation will call in literally the army to invade the city and lock it down and put snipers on the roofs and choppers in the sky to try to kill one dude.
And this does not convince - this alone, that the presence of
one runner in heavy armor means "call in the army," this doesn't convince you that
maybe the armor is a bit much?Because even if that doesn't, that pretty much average in every way street sam just took on the army.