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I had an armor bonus of +2 and I rolled a 1 in combat. Is this a bug or am I not understanding how the bonus works?

Deep Breakfast,

no, it's not a bug - if you look at the CRT information screen you will notice that there is an extension for +1 and +2 armour bonuses, eg a "7" and "8" dice roll.

When the combat screen is displayed, the dice roll range is automatically "shifted" up one or two results (and a +1 or +2 shown next to the CRT display).

so in your situation, if you had a +2, your dice roll was shown as rolled, but the actual results used were effectively using the 3-8 dice roll number range on the CRT information screen for that terrain type, so your "1" was actually a "3" result after modification.

Make sense? Easy concept and I don't think I've described it very well

Chris

Let me see if I understand this.

The table itself shifts up with the armor bonus so that the worst result shown in a combat with a +2 would be a 3 result on the normal table.

Do I have that right?

yes that's right, much more succinct way of putting it

Yep. the way to think about it is to think of how it would work if you were playing this as a board game - you would still use the same die, and so you would still roll a 1-6, then apply the bonus when looking up the results on the CRT.

It is a very cool concept but perhaps the crt would be easier to understand if it showed all 8 results with the armour bonus interacting alongside to show which 6 results were being used?

2 cents.

Brubaker