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Can you give the source or quote?
2067 - The first suit of Power Armor is deployed in Alaska. While lacking the full mobility of future versions, this Power Armor is incredibly effective against Chinese tanks and infantry. Its ability to carry heavy ordinance becomes key in various localized conflicts, and it has the power to destroy entire towns without endangering the wearer. - written by Chris Avellone.
"(...) A combination of inclement weather, constant American bombardment and trench warfare, and U.S. Powered Armor unit attacks sweeping through mainline China, the Chinese supply lines weakened and finally broke down completely. By the beginning of 2077, the city of Anchorage was finally liberated, the Chinese eradicated, and the operation deemed a success. A commemorative memorial was erected in Washington, D.C., in honor of the soldiers who fought and perished for the greater American good. Violence between America and pockets of Canadian freedom fighters continued throughout 2077, until the Great War obliterated almost all infrastructure, commerce, and human life." - Fallout 3 Official game guide.
China notably has an extreme manpower advantage over the U.S. allowing them to sustain a far larger infantry.
Cutting through several feat of steel is still a 9-B to 9-A feat. The main shot from a M1 Abrams tank is 9-B+. Getting killed by those weapons still indicates that the armor cannot be more than 9-A.
Excuse me, it can be 9-B according to what you just said. The video I posted shows roughly an inch and a quarter inch of titanium rejecting various ammo all the way up to 50 BMG. Let's look at the thickness of Power Armor:
I think you'd have some significant trouble trying to shoot through that with a 5.56 Service Rifle, or 5mm Assault Rifle. It's also spaced armor made in several layers - look at the pauldrons. Add the lightweight composite layer and the ablative coating on top of the metallic thickness you see here, and remember the composite shell alone can resist more than 2.5 kilojoules.
From the Fatman and Mininukes they are. Which is what was used against her.
You're measuring that based on the same gameplay mechanics you're rejecting. This is what the Fatman mininuke is based on, friend:
Of course, they had to reduce the blast size in gameplay, but there's no reason to assume the blast is gameplay small in lore.
You overlooked both Raider engagements from Fallout 3, Danse' logs, and the Legion faction ending for the Mojave BoS. They are not able bullet immune, just heavily resistant. Enough gunfire will bring them down.
The same Danse who survived a rocket engine to the face? You're ignoring that the raiders need to have weapons able to actually damage the armor. And Fallout 3 gives us the Battle of Anchorage and it's Power Armor being immune to small arms, and the way you destroy the BoS for the Legion is the Courier engaging the Mojave bunker's self-destruct nuke, or killing all the Paladins in the bunker - without Legion army support. Caesar doesn't even try to send any of his Legionaries to support the attack.
A pistol caliber 10mm packs much less force than a rifle or minigun bullet due to different velocities
And the eye-slit of the armor is much less resistant than the metal torso.
Guess you're right. We either scale them to the scripted laser cutscene or love them to 9-B.
Seems more like you don't want Power Armor to be 9-B, rather than you actually having viable evidence for them being lower than that.
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