"Power armour"

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Hi,

I'm designing and making some "power armour" for my team/army, basically, it's a completely enclosed corrugated plastic/PVC/solid plastic suit of armour with those slightly elastic washing machine tubes for mobility in the joints. I plan to build a torchlight, binoculars and walkie talkie into the suit, as well as a small water tank to refill friendly players on field, and a water carrier backpack to restock friendlies.
Then there's the heavier terminator armour (inspired by Warhammer 40k) with larger capacity and possibly a bottle rocket launcher mod.
As we normally use 1 transparency with a mark (written in water soluble marker) for health of normal guys, the armour will have 7 marked transparancies (2 on the chest, 2 on the back, 1 for each leg and 1 more on the back of the helmet).

Both are big and scary (good against relatively inexperienced opponents).

And bulky (very) and slow.

I'm still not sure about how effective it will be for heavy assault on the field though, and how it can be improved...

[isoaker]

Sidenote: This thread better fits into 'The Workshop'

Welcome to the boards!

Armor has always been a lesser-desirable thing usually amongst members. While potentially cool-looking and intimidating, if it restricts your movement a lot, that's no good. As well, if you end up fully protected from water streams, it sort of takes the fun away from a water fight. The addition of 'life bars' may work if you have multiple people in armor suited up and having a 'power armour' battle, but if you have a guy in a suit versus a guy without, if the suit restricts mobility and visibility a lot, there'd really be no contest.

In the end, it really depends on what sort of game you're intending to play using such a suit. It also depends on how well things can be put together to allow the armor wearer to have the most flexibility.