Iron Man historical AU

The Iron Man and War Machine armours seem to translate real easy to historical AU, being visually reminiscent of traditional plate armour, so fitting in with the 13th through 16th century. But I'm having trouble translating their role on the battlefield, especially their weapons. The mobility seems like mounted troops, except if you put mounted knights vs longbows they are not going to stand there looking invincible, and then there's the rise of gunpowder, and basically in the long running battle of tanks vs weapons, the weapons spent many centuries winning.

Actually even now the Iron Man armour seems to spend most of the time getting blown to bits or having holes knocked in it or falling apart so Tony can stick out looking vulnerable. Armour is not invincibility.

So say there's AU Tony and Rhodey in full plate armour (and AU historical Rhodey can be a black guy in many eras, there were black people all through history, I know this, I've read about Arthurian black people and all sorts). They're vulnerable, but not as much as the guy next to them, so they're up front protecting people.

So, what weapons are they using?

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Weapons are important. Tell you so much about how someone approaches a problem. Snipers and tanks just don't think the same way.

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It's still a big decision though. What tools to give a character, and how they stand.

Radio

I am listening to the 'Triffids' thing on BBC 4 Extra, sort of on accident in between recording things off the recorder box onto DVDs. It's very upsetting. The idea is very nearly everyone in the world woke up blind. The story then thinks the logical outcome is entire families killing themselves.

the layers of assumption that make that seem like a plausible outcome
very upsetting.




there's a lot of stupid.


Radio is annoying because the stories are all old old old, and stuffed full of garbage in terms of gender roles etc etc. I don't know why they do that, but I haven't heard anything actually recent except the Doctor Who audios. I love Doctor Who audios, but I already own them, so I only sometimes listen to them on the radio.

There was also Neverwhere but when I opened the page it said I had a year left to listen to it and then when I went back it said I needed to have listened to it last week. So that didn't work out so much.

I guess there's newer stuff in the comedy and drama threads, but the science fiction and horror are all the kind of 'classic' that thinks the 1970s are quite a lot recent really.

Is not good.