r/warhammerfantasyrpg • u/Cr0iz Moderator of Morr • Feb 26 '24

Meta MEGATHREAD: Post your small questions and concerns here for all editions!

Hey everyone, please post your smaller, technical questions here. We may have directed you here from a removed post or from the last megathread.

If you don't receive an answer within a few days then do feel free to make a separate post, make sure to say you didn't get an answer here. You might also want to visit Rat Catcher's Guild, the WFRP Discord. They have a dedicated Q & A channel and can be a lot more snappy with answers then here on Reddit. This is the invite link: https://discord.gg/fzYuYwT

That's all! Special thanks to everyone answering questions for helping people out on the last thread.

Previous megathread is here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/warhammerfantasyrpg/comments/101935w/megathread_post_your_small_questions_and_concerns/

If you still have unanswered questions/topics there, you may want to migrate those here :)

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u/striganypeddler Jul 24 '25

Hi, quick question : how does partial armor interacts with critical deflection? Can you never use the critical deflection with a partial piece of armor? Thanks in advance

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u/Nurgle_Pan_Plagi Jul 25 '25 edited Jul 27 '25

Those rules are independent of each other - in Core rulebook, RAW, if you use critical deflection you reduce the AP on a piece of armour that you are wearing on the location that was hit. It doesn't mention anything about the AP not being ignored/bypassed as a condition.

Likewise, the Partial description says only that you ignore the Partial armour's APs and doesn't mention that you can't use critical deflection.

If you take a critical to the location protected by Partial armour, you can still use critical deflection and ignore the Critical Wound - then you reduce the AP by one but the damage you take doesn't increase by one, as it would normally, since those APs were already ignored in damage calculation.

With that said, it does make a sense that a blow has to actually hit the armour for the armour to mitigate that blow - it's up to your group wheter you make that a requirement or not. It will also matter for any armour (or any metal armour) in case of spells from Lores of Shadows and Metal.