Yuhazhan Vong Weakness

If Lightsabers and blaster can not penetrate there armor How do they kill them?

 

There's a weak spot where the armour breathes under the armpits. When the armour dies it kills the warrior IIRC. Also any art that is not covered by the armour can be damaged.

 

Lightsabers and blasters were effective against the armor if they hit the right spots- spots found very quickly by the GFFA. I recall the stuff being Lightsaber resistant, not exactly lightsaber proof. It's not cortosis or anything....

In response to the title of this thread, Ackbar believed their weakness was their inability to cut their losses, back down, or surrender. He used that battle plan to beat them in battle, if I recall. Does the NJO just kinda become a blur of carnage, force heresies, and random hook-ups for the Solo kids, to anyone else?

Anyway, the fact that millions of Vong warriors were killed during the course of the war- they are surely beatable.


And if all else fails, Alpha Red.

 

Maybe SuperSaiyanMan and Rk_Striker_JK_5, but that's about it, I think.

 

It's called the AXE effect.

 

AXE

 

Or LYNX Effect. It's AXE in Germany, you know...

Quite a good one, btw...

 

Lightsabers can penetrate the crab hide, you just have to slash hard enough, or enough times, as we've seen the case. Blasters too can punch through; the armour is ward only for an errant shot or two, multiple fire gets through.

However, you have to remember there are several types of armour. The common scarlet and heavier cerulean are some variants.

Further more, no two authors showed the same consistency. So whatever you read one superficial book is often different to the next superficial book. The armour was resistant to blows only, anyway---keeps the blade in contact and it will burn though, quick enough. Same applkies for those ridiculous viperstaffs.

 

I wonder how much more effective slugthrowers and ACPs are against Vong...

 

I'm surprised they haven't appeared on the thread anything YV usually gets them going.

 

Ex: I always thought that the ascending order of armour colours was black, cerulean, and then blood-red for the most experienced warriors: Nom Anor has black as of CE (11 ABY) and gets his red, IIRC, in DW (28 ABY)...

There are some weak spots in vonduun crab armour, the gills being the most obvious; but there are also gradations in the extent of armour worn: the lowest-ranking warriors wear no armour, and there are also, IIRC, references to warriors with only partial armour and bare limbs.

Most do probably have full body armour, it's true, but face-masks and helmets only come with senior ranks - which must make the head a pretty blatant weakspot...

- The Imperial Ewok

 

Thrawn McEwok posted:

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Most do probably have full body armour, it's true, but face-masks and helmets only come with senior ranks - which must make the head a pretty blatant weakspot...[hr][/blockquote]

A fact the Mandos used, apparently. [face_mischief]


So, nothing on ACPs and slugthrowers, eh? [face_thinking]

 

No matter how good the Vong armor is, it can't defeat physics. Large slugthrowers could probably kill warriors easily, since the concussion would still do a lot of damage even if the round would not penetrate. And if armor penetration is absolutely necessary, there are ways to do that too.

Explosives are probably good Vong-killers, as well.

In other words, giant enemy crabs are overrated. Its easy to hit their weak points for massive damage.

 

Heh, that's my answer! I knew it...

The KE weapon is not for small arms, tho, it says. And I don't think you'd waste such a beauty on a single crabboy. - combined with an explosive device that goes off after penetrating the crab, it would, however, be of use against Yuuzhan Vong ground vehicles not using dovin-basals.

 

Which is just tap water. Swing away, Merrill, swing away.

 

Actually, I recently determined that it's Kyle Katarn's urine synthesized by the Chiss scientists. (See Kyle Katarn is so tough....)

 

Kryptonite

 

Hah, hah.

And 90% of my real life friends. And a lot of other people.

The Vong rely too much on coordination, too. Coordianation from those... things who's name I can't recall. Without it they can be disorganized and fall too prey to their base instincts.

 

The biggest weakness of the Vong is their psychology, as Ackbar so ably demonstrated in Destiny's Way. It's just a shame that the New Republic was so short on capable military minds that it took three years before somebody could see that.

 

I'm not entirely certain on armour colours, actually, McEwok. I was distracted by the generally superifical depth of prose and storytelling. All I know, from Ruin, is that blue is definitely heavy.

 

The better question is, where's the STRONG spot on stormtrooper armour? I mean, they wear armour, but they drop from a single blaster shot anyway, so why bother?

 

They don't. They ward off scattered shows, but concentrated fire or multiple shots fizzle in.

 

Well, one weakness never exploited in the books is a fairly simple one; their foreheads are sloped, not curved, which means their skulls should be easier to break than human ones.