Why is power armor so uncommon in NPC groups?

[srmalloy]

7 hours ago, Snarky said:

Then there js the multi year process to turn a volunteer into a council vampyr.  They are just super soldiers, not undead, not vampyrs but just really heavily modded.  

It would be annoying to do because of the additional modeling and animation, but it might make for an interesting link between groups to have some of the Warrior elites taking a 'shortcut' and using stolen sera from the Council's super soldier program; it either wouldn't have any effect on their stats, or give them a small boost to melee damage and resistance, with the visual indicator being that, on defeat, they transform into a Council wolf, then go through the Praetorian failed experiment defeat animation as their body can't handle the transformation (not having gone through the full process the Council uses) and collapse. You would also want to have a few new bits of dialogue for the Warriors about the rumors that some of them are using serums to boost themselves, rather than it being all their own work developing their body, and how that's perverting their ideals.

[Herotu]

On 8/3/2023 at 2:45 AM, Snarky said:

shit costs money and isnt that effective.  just recruit more peeps and hand them sappers and machine guns, or rig up another exploding zombie

Now THAT is what I call a Mastermind.

[Greycat]

... I'm picturing Circle of Thorns mystic "power armor" now...

[Techwright]

1 hour ago, Greycat said:

... I'm picturing Circle of Thorns mystic "power armor" now...

 

Crystal-based, most probably.

[Jiro Ito]

On 8/3/2023 at 9:57 AM, Scarlet Shocker said:

...even Vazhilok use powered armour... although the latters' is organic (ie other people - a literal meat shield)

 

arm armor made of literal arms for his army

[Oubliette_Red]

On 8/5/2023 at 12:30 AM, Greycat said:

... I'm picturing Circle of Thorns mystic "power armor" now...

 

My take on Death Mage Powered Armor