How would you handle a Sunder attempt vs Instant Armor?

[Cayzle]

The Instant Armor spell creates "a suit of armor made from opaque force." As a DM, how would you handle an attempt to sunder it?

You cannot sunder mage armor or even attack an unseen servant with weapons. You can batter down a wall of force with weapons, if you can get past the Hardness 30. Note that Instant Armor "acts in all ways as armor typical of its type (armor bonus, maximum Dexterity bonus, arcane spell failure chance, and so on)."

Advice most welcome!

[x9ss]

I would rule that it has the usual hardness of the armor and can be sundered as normal. So 10 Hardness (iron/steel) and the HP of normal armor (armor bonus x 5). The alternate is to give it 30 Hardness due to it's construction from force, but as it's a level 2 spell, I'd probably restrict it to the strength of steel.

[Isil-zha]

x9ss wrote:

but as it's a level 2 spell

mage armor is only level 1 and cannot be sundered...

on topic:

Instant Armor wrote:

School conjuration (creation) [force];

It is a different effect than a mage armor in it being conjured, therefore I'd say it can be sundered. But since it has the force descriptor I'd go with the hardness of other force effects. also note that if the caster chooses a magical version that every bonus should increase hardness and hit points as usual

[Cayzle]

Thanks for the comments. I think I'll go with the Hardness 30.