This is an alternative way of resolving damage that tries to model realism rather than primarily being a player friendly method. My first idea was to create a completely new system of dice rolling where a player rolled a number of dice equal to their attribute and added their ability to each dice.
This does not yet take into account Hardness as that will be considered later.
Step 7: Calculate raw damage
The base damage of an attack is equal to the number of successes scored on the attack roll, representing how well landed the blow was.
Step 8: Roll Damage
Roll one die per success and add the character's strength and weapon damage bonus to each die. If the roll scores higher than the target's armour then the roll is a success.
Step 9: Apply Overwhelming Damage Bonus
If the weapon has the tag Overwhelming Damage, add a number of successes to the damage roll equal to the weapon's overwhelming damage rating up to a maximum of the successes scored on the attack roll.
Step 10: Apply Soak and Resolve Damage
Reduce damage by the character's soak and apply remaining damage levels.
This system was designed to differentiate between the accuracy of an attack and the consequent degree of injury (scoring a single success attack roll with a grand grimscythe resulting in a scratch would not necessarily cause a much greater injury than scratching an opponent with a dagger) and the likelihood of injury when the character is hit (reflected by the weapon's damage and the character's strength.) I think this system successfully models the difference between these two elements of attack. Although I have yet to play test it.
