why does the assault class not have an armour perk?

[Mick McMack]

seriously it doesn't make any sense to me
i can somewhat understand the engineer having it but why does the sniper do?
arditi and stosstrupe historically used it a lot so why dont they have it?

[SPOOKYCOOKIE]

Arditi did not wear armor, as for the other factions that'd have to be up to an expert who could say presumably the same as me

[Bishop]

They didn't really wear it. They wanted speed more than the limited protection that the armour would provide. Engineers and Marksmen were more likely to wear it due to being more static in their actions so the loss of mobility wasn't such a problem.

[VON_Raymond]

Originally posted by Bishop:

They didn't really wear it. They wanted speed more than the limited protection that the armour would provide. Engineers and Marksmen were more likely to wear it due to being more static in their actions so the loss of mobility wasn't such a problem.

As well as that I doubt armour will stop a bullet being shot at you while charging up a mountain completely exposed. However being faster might improve your chances of survival.

[Mick McMack]

they did wear armour early in the war, the game features those early war battles such as the dolomites plus the defeault cosmetic skin for the arditi is their early war version

[Mick McMack]

german lobster armour was used by soldiers in static posiitions such as machine gunners, the german assault class is able to equip a "light" machine gun as its primary weapon

[SPOOKYCOOKIE]

Originally posted by Mick McMack:

they did wear armour early in the war, the game features those early war battles such as the dolomites plus the defeault cosmetic skin for the arditi is their early war version

Right but that armor was not worn by the Arditi, the armor you might be thinking of was from early war unit known as the "Compagnia della Morte" or "Company of death/Death company" worn by a specialist engineer unit which the sole purpose of it was to clear barbed wire, them getting the name due to the high death rate they had and was disbanded early on in 1916 due to this, but they were not Arditi nor assault units by any means

Originally posted by Mick McMack:

german lobster armour was used by soldiers in static posiitions such as machine gunners, the german assault class is able to equip a "light" machine gun as its primary weapon

Which wouldn't make sense because again, those units are moving forward unlike the engineer which can build hmg positions and be stationary, even if the GER Assault class can equip an machine gun

[Mick McMack]

no the arditi did use body armour, it was effective in close quarters combat such as trench raids and provided protection against bayonet thrusts or other kinds of melee combat, it provided protection against shrapnel, which was common on a battlefield that was constantly under bombardment, some arditi ditched the armour however choosing mobility over protection

[SPOOKYCOOKIE]

Originally posted by Mick McMack:

no the arditi did use body armour, it was effective in close quarters combat such as trench raids and provided protection against bayonet thrusts or other kinds of melee combat, it provided protection against shrapnel, which was common on a battlefield that was constantly under bombardment, some arditi ditched the armour however choosing mobility over protection

See there's an issue with this, the Arditi were formed in 1917, armors were scrapped in 1916 at least with the Italians, any and all stuff saying otherwise is misinformed or mislead by media that gets it wrong or uses improper sources

[Gordon_]

Originally posted by SPOOKYCOOKIE:

See there's an issue with this, the Arditi were formed in 1917, armors were scrapped in 1916 at least with the Italians, any and all stuff saying otherwise is misinformed or mislead by media that gets it wrong or uses improper sources

What wasn't scrapped was sold to Belgium, which used it the same way as the German's used their sappenpanzers.
Those armors are clunky, heavy and only allow for an awkward shouldering of the rifle or carbines (something that was known even pre war with attempts to remedy that problem with weapons like the Berthier 1890 cuirassiers), something that the Arditi had a need for, along with mobility.
Funnily enough there's a picture of a Belgian soldier posing with one that is often misstitled as an arditi.