Board Thread:Random RP/@comment-26084195-20160221072634/@comment-26863727-20160303221901

Tybereous wrote: Aramirtheranger wrote: Tybereous wrote: Aramirtheranger wrote: "They, whoever they are, have revealed themselves. For years, I've been hoarding scraps of steel and titanium inot anticipation ofor thiso day. The greatest thing about titanium? Basically bullet proof, not just bullet resistant, lIke what the standard EDEN troopers wear. It's half the weight of steel, too. I'll have to be careful of specialty armor piercing rounds, but even those will have a tough job of penetrating once the titanium plates are tempered, if you can call it that. For the first time in centuries, the world is going to see a knight on the battlefield. Well, a dismounted knight, anyway. Maybe someday I'll make a lance and ride a motorcycle..." that last part was a joke. At least,  you think it was. (The joints and the lack of maneuverability will kill you.) (Good grief, you actually buy into that crap "historians" in the 19th century who couldn't tell which end of a sword is which made up about knights, and medieval European warfare in general. Halfway decent full plate armor doesn't restrict the range of mtoion available to you at all.) (There were like six assumptions in that statement...

Do you realize how heavy full titanium armor would be? Also, do you realize that you have no experience whatsoever forging armor? You think EDEN leaves plans for that just lying about? Also, if you're going to be maneuverable enough to be at all effective, you're going to have to leave some joints at least relatively exposed. Any marksman (such as myself in Halo) could easily target such waknesses.

And in response to Shade's little comment about Spartan armor being all one piece, that is absolutely false if you're talking about Halo.)

(Titanium weighs a little less than half as much as steel, and even the heaviest steel suits were only about 66 pounds, as opposed to over 100 pounds carried into battle by modern soldiers. He's purchased books about it on the black market, and don't say there couldn't be one, there always is in this sort of government. You are an idiot if you think playing Halo makes you a good shot.)