Note: Throughout, I use the word body to distinguish between armor target areas and your regular target areas (previous versions of the BoW use unarmored and armored, but in the context of this revision that distinction doesn't make as much sense). I do not mean only the torso target area, so the first revision is to change the wording of that target area.
Changes are in bold.
Proposed Rules Changes wrote:3.3.1 Torso:
3.6. Armor:
3.6.1. Armor is a target area separate from the body target area it covers. Multiple pieces of armor covering the same body target area are considered a single target area. A single piece of armor covering multiple areas is separated into multiple target areas according to 3.3.
3.6.2. Armor must cover at least one-third of a body target area. Armor which extends continuously from a different target area is not required to cover one-third of a body target area to count as an armor target area.
3.6.3. Weapons that strike both armor and body target areas are considered to have hit the body target area.
3.6.4. The presence of armor must be easily discernible to count as armor.
3.6.5. “Armor” must be declared to acknowledge that a sufficient-force strike hit the armor but did not disable a body target area.
3.6.5.1. It is encouraged to include the target area in the declaration of armor; e.g.“left leg armor,” or “body armor.”
3.7 Hits
3.7.2.1. One hit to anunarmoredtarget area disables that target area.3.7.2.2. Two hits to an armored target area disable that target area.
3.7.2.2. Two hits to an armor target area delivered in a single strike (i.e. a strike with a class 2 weapon) inflicts one hit of injury on the armor target area and one hit of injury to the corresponding body target area. This is a specific exception to 3.9.
3.7.5 Subsequent hits to the same location
3.7.5.5 All subsequent hits to a disabled armor target area bypass the armor target area.
And one optional addition, to cover the case of striking an unarmored part of the limb. Optional because I have typically played that if you lose a limb the armor doesn't do anything anymore, but I have also recently learned that not everyone interprets things this way.
Optional Addition wrote: 3.7.2.1.1. One hit to a body target area with a class 1 or 2 weapon disables both the body target area and the corresponding armor target area (if any).
So, what do people think? Does this work? Does it make sense? Did I miss anything that needs to be added? This was a pretty quick first draft, so all comments are welcome.