Am I misunderstanding the armour rules?
Am I misunderstanding the armour rules? (Is it actually worse to do M then W?) posted in Rules & Errata forum comment posted by cobalt_phoenix I'm going to add in that the same rules apply for vehicles and spacecraft, as that was part of your original question.
Starships did introduce the ability to include multiple armor layers (you can have up to one of each thickness, light, moderate, and heavy, on a ship), but you roll them separately and use the best result. Starships also introduced the idea that you can have ships with armor belts, where a specific armor type and thickness only provides coverage for specified compartments.
If you are using Warships, then that multiple layer rule also applies.
And that is something to consider for personal armor, as they layers don't normally stack protection. If you have a character with natural armor, like the t'sa, and they are wearing armor, you roll the two separately and take the highest value. The only exception is that the t'sa did develop their own ballistic vest, found in the Alien Armors section of the SD AEG (the ptokh k'se, found on page 78) that technically stacks protection with their natural armor, though it replaces the values of their natural armor with the listed values.
I would imagine that you could expand the rule for multiple layers to vehicles as well, so you only get one layer of a given thickness and you only use the highest roll.
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