But also it's very hard to hit a man sized target with a tank cannon. Tanks are faster in a drag race, but the power armored trooper would be more agile while also wielding anti-tank weaponry. A tank would be loath to go toe to toe with something like that.
In my mind I always figured in the fallout universe Nixon reproached the soviets instead of the Chinese.
Agreed but if you take into account 155mm rounds like a Howitzer fires, fired from a battery of artillery, you can definitely take down a group of Power Armored troops. Start shooting Fatman nukes out of the things and nothing would survive.
The tanks would be engaged in some close combat, but your artillery can lay fire down to stop them from advancing too close. If the Power Armored troops DID get the drop on anybody you can guarantee they would stomp some ass. Why they would bother when they could send in Assaultrons and Sentry *Bots. I will never know.
* I actually typed droids first instead of bots.
A 155mm is a nasty shell but it's largely shrapnel and concussion. It plays hell on modern infantry but the protection of power armor would negate anything other than a direct or very near miss (those inside the kill radius versus those inside the wound radius), I'd imagine.
Fatman shells and assaulttrons straight up break logic; they'd be win buttons. Sentry bots would totally depend on which version was being sent out. Fallout 3 sentry bots would be nasty as hell but Fallout 4 sentry bots with their video-game-boss-cool-down state would be laughable in actual battle.
The trouble with having fun discussions like this is that we put far more thought into it than Beth does. We used to have Fallout, Fallout 2, and the Bible. It all mostly worked and made sense back then. Now that Beth retcons huge swaths of the lore with each pass it takes at the franchise, we are stuck with a lore that makes less and less internal sense. I often find myself still defaulting to the Bible and it's original timeline for canon, but really it's half out the window now. I think that's the most frustrating thing about the Beth games, I'd be more ok with stink pots like Fo3 and 4 if they, at the very freaking least, didn't retcon the story I fell in love with way back when. But here we are.
Agreed but if you take into account 155mm rounds like a Howitzer fires, fired from a battery of artillery, you can definitely take down a group of Power Armored troops. Start shooting Fatman nukes out of the things and nothing would survive.
The tanks would be engaged in some close combat, but your artillery can lay fire down to stop them from advancing too close. If the Power Armored troops DID get the drop on anybody you can guarantee they would stomp some ass. Why they would bother when they could send in Assaultrons and Sentry *Bots. I will never know.
* I actually typed droids first instead of bots.
A 155mm is a nasty shell but it's largely shrapnel and concussion. It plays hell on modern infantry but the protection of power armor would negate anything other than a direct or very near miss (those inside the kill radius versus those inside the wound radius), I'd imagine.
This is just one way it could be used. Other rounds are available too. I wonder if depleted uranium would work? There are certain rounds we used in the Army that would penetrate through damn near anything. Excalibur was something a lot of people were fond of. The shrapnel rounds would not do much against PA as you said.
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I would use something like that on a larger scale with a mobile cannon.
Yep, that was the idea I was trying to convey.
I agree but at the same time a T-55 main cannon is never going to hit a moving man-sized target that is firing back at it with AT weapons and if it does manage to land a shell on one guy the other 43 are going to toast the tank in the process.