Best Armor in Existence

[The Madman]

My inner history geek instantly conjures of the Knights Hospitaller as most badass looking, frightening, and practical (For its time!) set of armour in history. I mean seriously, these guys were tanks, and throughout history have been as an order involved in some of the most brutal and violent wars and crusades ever fought, for good or ill.

What's more impressive is that technically the order is still alive today, although under a new name. Suck it Knights Templar!

Anyway, debate the morality of that time all you like. Doesn't change that they looked terrifying.

The guys show up in a couple games that take place in that era, Medieval: Total War springs to mind and I'm pretty sure they show up a couple times in Assassins Creed. Of course if we're talking fictional armour only, guess I'd have to go with the Hospitaller inspired armour already mentioned by someone else:

Spoiler

 

[Nouw]

"Even in death, I still serve."

Snip

Who.is.the.first.guy.he.looks.fucking.A.

 

[Sarpedon]

The Gunmetal suit from the game Gunmetal. Giant armoured robot-suit that could transform into an armoured jet on the whim of the pilot and could be loaded out with numbers shooty explody things.

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'Nuff said.

 

[Koeryn]

That guy who mentioned being the Armour of the Protagonist? Yeah. That, hands down.

That said, I love the Armoured Combat Suits from the Posleen Wars saga. Anything that'll let you survive detonating a high-yield tactical nuclear weapon by hand, the flight out to sea, and then the intervening time before someone comes and pulls your smoking torso and head from the water? A-Okay by me!

Plus, it's from a novel that's got Bun-Bun the Killer Mini-lop featured prominently on the front of a 200 foot battle tank. It's hard to get MORE badass than that.

And here I thought I was the only person on the forums who read this series. This was gonna be my suggestion as well, although personally I'd go with the second generation of the suits, the one Mike gets after surviving the explosion.

But it's not only the protective capabilities, it's also for the ability to blast music, create holograms, and generally carry on a form of psychological warfare like nothing ever seen before with just one suit.


(And, on a side note, Sluggy Freelance is awesome.)

Haha, I'm glad to not be the only person here who's enjoyed that series! And the limited anti-gravity capabilities, the absurd built in weapons systems, and the fact that Iron Mike is one of the biggest badasses ever written...

 

[Fidelias]

Spoiler: This thread ends now.

Oh crap! You win.

 

[MrGalactus]

The armour isnt scary, atleast not until you blow him up and use archemedies II to see him running out of the fire while you empty AP rounds into him. God that guy wa tough, this was normal mode BTW.

Yeah I played on hard. It tool almost every round from my alien blaster, and that's the most powerful weapon in the game.

 

[theriddlen]

Spoiler: Nanosuit

 

[ChocoFace]

The one Tony Stark is wearing.

 

[Twad]

Samus's powersuit. I mean, its basically plot armor that adapt istelf to everything, got huge built-in firepower (with unlimited ammo) and super mobility.

 

[Moonlight Butterfly]

Spoiler: Image

I have a soft spot for the security armour in dead money, I like the blue version too.

 

[Toaster Hunter]

Adeptus Custodes, because there's no such thing as too shiny or elaborate.

 

[Lord Doomhammer]

Spoiler: Nanosuit

Spoiler: I think you mean Nanosuit 2

 

[Zantos]

War's armour in Darksiders. Not decided if i prefer Abyssal or his original stuff though

 

[Baneat]

Male paladin tier 2
Or
T-51b

 

[Baneat]

Because it's genuinely striking and quite scary.

The armour isnt scary, atleast not until you blow him up and use archemedies II to see him running out of the fire while you empty AP rounds into him. God that guy wa tough, this was normal mode BTW.

All it took for me on normal was a sneak attack critical to the head from the AM rifle, then another when he was running down the hill to the head (Still sneak) then one or two shotgun shells to the chest.

Fuckin pussy

 

[88srule]

That guy who mentioned being the Armour of the Protagonist? Yeah. That, hands down.

That said, I love the Armoured Combat Suits from the Posleen Wars saga. Anything that'll let you survive detonating a high-yield tactical nuclear weapon by hand, the flight out to sea, and then the intervening time before someone comes and pulls your smoking torso and head from the water? A-Okay by me!

Plus, it's from a novel that's got Bun-Bun the Killer Mini-lop featured prominently on the front of a 200 foot battle tank. It's hard to get MORE badass than that.

And here I thought I was the only person on the forums who read this series. This was gonna be my suggestion as well, although personally I'd go with the second generation of the suits, the one Mike gets after surviving the explosion.

But it's not only the protective capabilities, it's also for the ability to blast music, create holograms, and generally carry on a form of psychological warfare like nothing ever seen before with just one suit.



(And, on a side note, Sluggy Freelance is awesome.)

Haha, I'm glad to not be the only person here who's enjoyed that series! And the limited anti-gravity capabilities, the absurd built in weapons systems, and the fact that Iron Mike is one of the biggest badasses ever written...

You forgot anti-matter powered, so it can run pretty much forever.
BTW, these suits ARE the most badass, can takeout any armour, even warhammer 40k, dreadnoughts, because of their automatic grav guns (3mm depleted uranium darts powered by antimatter going at 0.3 the speed of light (so 100 THOUSAND kilometers/second!), 20 mm antimatter grenades, Iron Mike's elbow mounted flamethrowers, and the various mono-molecular blades on the suit...not to mention, he COULD use terawatt lasers too, he obviously has the power for the secondary safety systems

 

[skywolfblue]

Whaaaaat? No mention of Dead Space 2 yet?

 

[galaktar]

The "don't-get-shot-in-the-first-place" armor

 

[debra_ beretta]

I'm not a huge fan of the chap but you can't deny, he looks pretty awesome...

 

[FunctionZ]

Spoiler

Dear lord he is awesome. He is a close first to mortarion.

Who is this guy? His armour is badass. Bloody brilliant.