Talk:Punch Through/@comment-36.70.233.116-20150210053029/@comment-135.0.26.49-20150511093737

RPG example works, but that also comes from reality. A good example of where it actually broke the cycle is firearms, where armour is only sluggishly starting to catch up to the penetration power of bullets, and even then it's not very reliable.

And after straight armour is thrown out the window, you get into ignoring armour and going for other things. For example, tank armour is no longer pure steel as it once was (even if we still measure penetration power in RHA standards) but contains many softer materials, due to the advanced in technology that culminated in the HEAT round, which was devastating. HEAT rounds don't fare so well when faced with materials that you can't so easily superheat and turn into a molten stream that'll burn through everything else. And we have reactive armour, as well as active defences such as CIWS.

So if we allow PT to start ignoring armour, it'll screw us over even more, when we see CHG's wearing CIWS harnesses that swat all our bullets out of the air. And when we go to stab them, their bellies explode into our face as we strike their reactive armour.