08-18-2016, 01:46 AM
(08-18-2016, 01:34 AM)SCN-3_NULL Wrote:(08-18-2016, 01:29 AM)Dipdoo Wrote: 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.
what about some modern adaptation to made the above more effective like shaped charged head or rocket boosters?
I'm not too well versed there, but in theory a 'layered' shell might work out, increasingly dense/tough materials closer to the center of the shell so the weaker materials dig into the target without losing as much force due to it giving way to the next layer and so on, I'm not so sure how that'd work out though.
Blunt shells could work and I believe there are some already, they wouldn't get through armor but it would transfer all of it's force into the target right away, jarring the crew and/or systems, or pulping whatever's behind it if it's tight armor. Long ranges on those shots probably wouldn't work out too well because a blunt face creates more drag.
Rocket boosters as in a rocket on the back of a shell to increase speed probably wouldn't work out too well, the heat put out from throwing a shell out of a barrel can be extreme and cause warping to the shot, granted it tends to be very little warping. That tiny amount of warping would still severely reduce accuracy of a rocet propelled bullet/shell because the angle of the rocket in comparison to the tip of the shell would throw the shell off target once the rocket kicks in. On top of that shells like that would be locked to medium-long ranges because the rocket would need to be able to accelerate the shot to top speed.
Hammers with funky heads probably wouldn't work too well, the shock of hitting something with it would put lots of strain on the handle and would rock the hands holding the handle. Rocket propelled swings wouldn't work at all without specific armor on that can support it, trying to stop a normal swing of a hammer is hard enough, stopping a rocket-swing of one would throw the user off their feet unless they weighed literal tons and had some extreme grip on their shoes.