EMP works against 🤖 robots and 🦾 Power Armor. Everything else ignores this tag entirely.
On a successful hit
- Unshielded: the target is ✨ Stunned for 1 turn.
- EMP Shielded, or unable to be Stunned (such as 🧭 Reoriented): the target is ⏬ Staggered instead.
Who is EMP Shielded
| Target | Shielded? |
|---|---|
| 🤖 Robot chassis | Only the 🤖 Advanced Military Chassis by default. Any other chassis can be shielded with the EMP Shielding Module |
| 🦾 Power Armor | 🦾 X-01 by default. Every other set needs Composite Plate or better in its Plating slot |
| Everyone else | Not a valid target — EMP does nothing to flesh |
Power Armor is shielded piece by piece. A hit that lands on an unshielded piece is unshielded, so a suit is only as EMP-proof as the piece that gets struck. Called Shots cut both ways here.
A Power Armor wearer is Stunned or Staggered along with the suit — it seizes with them inside it.
Related
- ✨ Stunned · ⏬ Staggered · 🧭 Reoriented — what EMP does, and what stops it repeating
- ⚡ Pulse — the tag that deals the extra damage to machines
- Composite Plate · Laminate Plate · Ablative Plating — the Power Armor Plating mods that shield
- EMP Shielding — the robot Module that shields
- 🌩 Shock X — the other electrical tag, which works on anything