Undead & Armor (&class levels)

Question

1) Undead take damage on their Toughness characteristic instead of on their wounds. Does giving them armor mean they can take more damage, as they gain an enhancement bonus to toughness, or is the damage done purely to their unmodified toughness characteristic?

2) Also, instead of wound increases for some class levels, do undead gain something like a toughness bonus for being a L5 class?

Jack Rocchio · Accepted Answer

Undead, and more generally non-living models, take damage directly to their base Toughness Characteristic. Armor helps prevent damage, but does not directly increase the amount of damage they can take.

Edit 7/30/21: Wounds disappear when converting to a non-living model. The exception to this is Demon Engines, which convert extra Wounds from Classes into Increase Toughness X, valued at the base Class' extra Wounds. This Increase does not count against the Max Age Bonus.

Jack Rocchio · Answer

@Mark @Ward Bannink Zounds, it appears I was wrong! Good catch.

Demon Engines are indeed the only form of non-living model that convert Wounds from Classes into Toughness, and when they do it is considered an Increase. However, this Increase explicitly does not count towards the Maximum Age Bonus. I shall amend my original answer accordingly.

Mark · Answer

The only reference I found to this is under Demonic Engine, which only mentions wounds from classes getting turned into toughness.

Ward Bannink · Answer

@Jack Rocchio Do you know whether these wounds added to toughness count as increases to toughness (therefore capping the toughness stat at 6)?