diff --git a/docs/BESTIARY.md b/docs/BESTIARY.md
index a537ba4..ae13804 100644
--- a/docs/BESTIARY.md
+++ b/docs/BESTIARY.md
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ costs it **30 points** on the next one, and the whole thing resets when the
 round does. The median dodge in this book is 45%, which goes **45%** → **15%** → **1%**
 and is down to the floor after 2 landing hits.
 
-Across 47 creatures: **13** are stripped by 1 landing hit, **25** are stripped by 2 landing hits, **9** are stripped by 3 landing hits.
+Across 46 creatures that spend defences: **13** are stripped by 1 landing hit, **25** are stripped by 2 landing hits, **8** are stripped by 3 landing hits.
 
 Two things follow:
 
@@ -100,13 +100,15 @@ attack any less. Held at a fixed pack size the dodge ladder is worth a point or
 A pack is measured when its spread-fire odds stand clear of 0% and 100% by more than its own noise, so a fight nobody could lose
 and a fight nobody could win are both left out.)*
 
+**Redcap is not on this ladder at all.** NOT TIRED means it never spends a defence: every dodge it makes is at 75%, however many have landed that round. Stripping is not a plan against it — killing it is.
+
 The ones that take the most stripping:
 
 - **The margin** — dodge 80%, 3 landing hits to strip
-- **Redcap** — dodge 75%, 3 landing hits to strip
 - **Lantern man** — dodge 75%, 3 landing hits to strip
 - **Hedley Kow** — dodge 70%, 3 landing hits to strip
 - **The courier** — dodge 70%, 3 landing hits to strip
+- **The Quiet Neighbours** — dodge 68%, 3 landing hits to strip
 
 It runs the other way too: agents defend on the same ladder, which is why a second
 attacker in a round is worth so much more than the first, and why anything that gets
@@ -832,6 +834,13 @@ clock. It does **not** model bleeding, panic, Coherence, cover, range bands or f
 modes, and every one of those makes a fight worse for whoever is losing. Read all of it
 as a floor.
 
+**And it fights most of these creatures without their powers.** 2 of the
+41 POWERS in this book are in the
+simulator; **14** are fight rules it cannot express — a grapple into
+drowning, a Coherence drain, an initiative it takes by right — and the rest are not
+fight rules at all. Every figure above for one of those 14 is the
+creature with its best trick taken away. `tools/powers.mjs` says which is which and why.
+
 ## A known gap
 
 22 creatures fight with nothing but their own bodies and still carry
diff --git a/tools/bestiary.mjs b/tools/bestiary.mjs
index e91fc7c..f51a057 100644
--- a/tools/bestiary.mjs
+++ b/tools/bestiary.mjs
@@ -25,6 +25,11 @@ import { writeFile, readFile } from "node:fs/promises";
 import { existsSync } from "node:fs";
 import path from "node:path";
 import { NPCS } from "./content.mjs";
+import { POWERS, combatPowerFor } from "./powers.mjs";
+
+const wiredPowers = Object.values(POWERS).filter(p => p.kind === "wired").length;
+const unwiredFightPowers = Object.values(POWERS).filter(p => p.kind === "notSimulable").length;
+const outOfCombatPowers = Object.values(POWERS).filter(p => p.kind === "outOfCombat").length;
 import { hitPointsFor, majorWoundFor, locationsFor,
          resolveBands, defencePenaltyFor, DEFENCE_STEP } from "../rules.mjs";
 import { buildCombatant } from "./simulate.mjs";
@@ -185,7 +190,16 @@ function focusParagraph() {
     return 8;
   };
 
-  const all = rows.map(r => ({ name: r.spec.name, d: dodgeOf(r.spec) })).filter(x => x.d > 0);
+  /* A creature whose power exempts it from the stacking penalty is not on this ladder at
+     all, and listing it among the ones that "take the most stripping" told a GM the exact
+     opposite of what its own entry says three pages down. R-275 wired NOT TIRED into the
+     simulator and left this section describing the behaviour it replaced. */
+  const exempt = rows.map(r => r.spec)
+    .filter(sp => combatPowerFor(sp.key)?.defenceStacking === "ignores")
+    .map(sp => ({ name: sp.name, d: dodgeOf(sp), power: POWERS[sp.key].name }));
+  const exemptNames = new Set(exempt.map(x => x.name));
+  const all = rows.map(r => ({ name: r.spec.name, d: dodgeOf(r.spec) }))
+    .filter(x => x.d > 0 && !exemptNames.has(x.name));
   const sorted = [...all].sort((a, b) => a.d - b.d);
   const median = sorted[Math.floor(sorted.length / 2)].d;
   const ladder = [0, 1, 2].map(u => effAfter(median, u));
@@ -199,7 +213,7 @@ function focusParagraph() {
     + `round does. The median dodge in this book is ${median}%, which goes `
     + `${ladder.map(v => `**${v}%**`).join(" → ")}\n`
     + `and is down to the floor after ${stripsIn(median)} landing hits.\n\n`
-    + `Across ${all.length} creatures: `
+    + `Across ${all.length} creatures that spend defences: `
     + Object.keys(spread).sort().map(k => `**${spread[k]}** are stripped by ${k} landing hit${k === "1" ? "" : "s"}`).join(", ")
     + `.\n\n`
     + `Two things follow:\n\n`
@@ -213,6 +227,11 @@ function focusParagraph() {
     + `rule for holding an action. Arranging the party so its best weapon fires last was\n`
     + `measured in the simulator and came to nothing distinguishable from noise.\n\n`
     + focusParagraph()
+    + (exempt.length
+        ? exempt.map(x => `**${esc(x.name)} is not on this ladder at all.** ${x.power} means it `
+            + `never spends a defence: every dodge it makes is at ${x.d}%, however many have landed `
+            + `that round. Stripping is not a plan against it — killing it is.\n\n`).join("")
+        : "")
     + `The ones that take the most stripping:\n\n`
     + hardest.map(x => `- **${esc(x.name)}** — dodge ${x.d}%, ${stripsIn(x.d)} landing hits to strip\n`).join("")
     + `\nIt runs the other way too: agents defend on the same ladder, which is why a second\n`
@@ -265,6 +284,14 @@ md += `## Reading the measured column\n\n`
   + `clock. It does **not** model bleeding, panic, Coherence, cover, range bands or fire\n`
   + `modes, and every one of those makes a fight worse for whoever is losing. Read all of it\n`
   + `as a floor.\n\n`
+  /* Counted from powers.mjs rather than stated, because the last time this paragraph
+     described what the harness could do it was a year out of date within a session. */
+  + `**And it fights most of these creatures without their powers.** ${wiredPowers} of the\n`
+  + `${wiredPowers + unwiredFightPowers + outOfCombatPowers} POWERS in this book are in the\n`
+  + `simulator; **${unwiredFightPowers}** are fight rules it cannot express — a grapple into\n`
+  + `drowning, a Coherence drain, an initiative it takes by right — and the rest are not\n`
+  + `fight rules at all. Every figure above for one of those ${unwiredFightPowers} is the\n`
+  + `creature with its best trick taken away. \`tools/powers.mjs\` says which is which and why.\n\n`
   + `## A known gap\n\n`
   + `${unmodelled.length} creatures fight with nothing but their own bodies and still carry\n`
   + `baseline-human anatomy. Some of those are people and that is fine. Several plainly are\n`