08-18-2016, 01:29 AM
(08-18-2016, 01:16 AM)SCN-3_NULL Wrote:
something tells me I should watch Star Trek, not the movies but the old series
(08-18-2016, 01:06 AM)Dipdoo Wrote: Good old plate armor was not easily pierced/cleaved through at all, it took hefty crossbows with the right tip and a good angle to slam through plate armor, or bludgeons with points on it, like a lucerne, to pierce through with a strong hit at the right angle.
Axes, swords, anything that was bladed and relied on slicing was heavily limited against plate armor, not even the biggest man equipped with the biggest of axes could hope to cleave through well maintained plate, beating the other guy unconcious with the axe was still an option. Using a longsword as a bludgeon did work though, I believe swings using the pommel and guard were called 'Murder-Strokes.'
Spears and blunt force were the most useful things, spears because of their ease of use and their ability to more easily slide into openings in the armor, and blunt because the sheer force could bruise and break bones, eventually the person wearing the armor would be battered to the ground and then easily stabbed.
but will the same applied to modern armor(MBT/LT/power armor), especially one that proven to be difficult to be penetrated even with APFSDS,
In terms of angles and piercing yeah, just to an extreme degree, that and there's always some sort of weaker joint in the armor, otherwise the wearer would be completely immobile and encased in a 'METAL BAWKS.'
Raw force from a blunt object could still mangle someone inside power armor, especially if the inside of the armor lacks padding, that force has to be transferred somewhere. But at some point you'd need some hyper-dense material with much more mass than you'd expect in the 'brick' of a hammer-head, and either the strongest guy ever or a machine to swing it hard enough to seriously dent power armor.
It's all about mass and speed, thicker/tougher armor just needs a bigger and/or faster 'bullet' to get through, that and angles, a glancing blow has little hope of accomplishing anything.