Sentences with phrase «as armor began»

But as armor began to become obsolete in the 1600s with the invention of gunpowder, the greaves and sabatons were the first things to go.

Not exact matches

The stockpiling began in the 1990s, as Congress implemented the military - transfer program to equip police with automatic weapons and armored trucks to better protect themselves against drug gangs and neutralize armed assailants like the two men who carried out the Columbine High School massacre.

Federal grants and the Pentagon's 1033 program accelerated after 9/11, and according to The New York Times, as U.S. forces began to withdraw from Iraq and Afghanistan, police departments across the nation amassed an even greater supply of surplus weapons — tens of thousands of machine guns, 200,000 ammunition magazines, thousands of fatigues and pieces of camouflage, night - vision equipment, and hundreds of silencers, armored cars, and aircraft.

So it is with good reason today, as we turn to look at the spiritual armor which God has given for us to use in this spiritual war, that Paul begins his discussion with the belt of truth.

After a brief (and cliché) sequence of bad guys attacking an armored caravan, we are treated to the first pleasant surprised the trailer has in store for us: the iconic party van comes up behind the masked villains as RUN - DMC's «Tricky» begins to play.

Michael Mann «s 1995 film Heat wastes no time at all — it begins with the heist of an armored car and compels us to keep watching as our career thieves continue down this dangerous path.

In the demo, players will begin their journey as a Warrior, Mage or Ranger, and level up their character while gathering resources, crafting powerful weapons and armor and casting spells to defeat monsters in real - time combat as they explore just one of many expansive islands available in the full game.

I have played and finished Monster Hunter on the Wii... ha... and yes... it doesn't hold your hand... but if its the same as the version I played you'll have a tutorial of mostly everything at the beginning of the game which starts out slow... It's when you finally confront your first huge beast that you start getting hooked to it... planning out strategies to take it down and making better weapons and armor thanks to it!

In the beginning the random mobs will be tougher on the actual game as you start as a noob geared player (shirt, sandals, skirt / shorts no armor what so ever) the pleiosaurus will one shot you in the beginning using it's weaker attacks.

Each one of your ten strong warband (you actually begin with four, but that number increases) can be individually decked out with weapons and armor as well as new skills as they level up, letting you guide your melee fighters, magic users and ranged units in specific ways depending on your chosen strategy.

Each time I killed an Awakened I supposedly grew even more deadly, but again during the actual gameplay this didn't seem to be the case: i felt almost the same as I had in the beginning, except now I was better at fast talking and my armor was a bit shinier.

You can even begin buying armor that dresses your character up as fan favorite characters from the main series.

If you begin the game as X, you'll automatically unlock the Force Armor, a replica of a fully upgraded X from Mega Man X4, as being available to use in the game's levels.

With a new storyline introducing Oryx, Crota's vengeful father, an all - new destination, three new Guardian subclasses, a massive arsenal of new armor, weapons and exotics, new Strikes and Crucible maps, and the new «King's Fall» Raid that will put players to the ultimate test, there has never been a better time to jump in to «Become Legend,» particularly for new players beginning their journey as a Guardian.The Taken King major expansion takes players deep into the chambers of a new destination, the «Dreadnaught» ship, to defeat Oryx, and his Taken Army.

I have been playing the BETA on the 360 since last week Friday, and i must admit i am really enjoying it, i was skeptical in the beginning because i am no MMO player just cant get into the games, hell i could not even get into borderlands 1 & 2 (yes i know its not an MMO) because of how repetitive the games are, but Destiny has really peaked my interest and from what i have played its set to be a really deep and immersive and when you get to play with others it just gets that much better, what i liked was that if you planned it right you can get quite an interesting character build as long as you set your armor and weapons right (got a bit of a Diablo feel), and i think its going to get really good once the game is released.

A TRULY MASSIVE MULTIPLAYER EXPERIENCE ● Join a GUILD and dominate the leaderboards ● Team up with friends, or go head - to - head in the ARENA ● Ride epic MOUNTS like the fabled Pegasus into battle BEGIN A HERO AND BECOME A GOD ● Earn Godly Powers and expand your SKILL TREE ● Unlock the path to Mt. Olympus and the WINGS OF A GOD ● Enlist Centaurs, Phoenixes and Griffons to join you on your quest to godhood CUSTOMIZE YOUR CHARACTER ● Become a legendary WARRIOR, deadly ARCHER, or powerful MAGE ● ENHANCE your strength and appearance with epic weapons and armor ● CRAFT enchanted gear and grow your Might ● COLLECT rare loot drops as you explore Ancient Greece BECOME GREECE \»S GREATEST HERO ● Team up with HERCULES and PERSEUS ● Enter the LABYRINTH and fight the mighty MINOTAUR ● Fight infamous Monsters like MEDUSA and the CYCLOPS ONE GAME — MANY WAYS TO PLAY ● ACTION — Command your Hero in strategic battles ● STRATEGY — BUILD your city and expand your FARM ● ROLE PLAYING — Explore STORY MODE and brave dungeons solo Legacy of Zeus — Begin a Hero, Become aBEGIN A HERO AND BECOME A GOD ● Earn Godly Powers and expand your SKILL TREE ● Unlock the path to Mt. Olympus and the WINGS OF A GOD ● Enlist Centaurs, Phoenixes and Griffons to join you on your quest to godhood CUSTOMIZE YOUR CHARACTER ● Become a legendary WARRIOR, deadly ARCHER, or powerful MAGE ● ENHANCE your strength and appearance with epic weapons and armor ● CRAFT enchanted gear and grow your Might ● COLLECT rare loot drops as you explore Ancient Greece BECOME GREECE \»S GREATEST HERO ● Team up with HERCULES and PERSEUS ● Enter the LABYRINTH and fight the mighty MINOTAUR ● Fight infamous Monsters like MEDUSA and the CYCLOPS ONE GAME — MANY WAYS TO PLAY ● ACTION — Command your Hero in strategic battles ● STRATEGY — BUILD your city and expand your FARM ● ROLE PLAYING — Explore STORY MODE and brave dungeons solo Legacy of Zeus — Begin a Hero, Become aBegin a Hero, Become a God!

While you start with one of the 14 basic weapon - types at the beginning, completing quests will get you the materials to power up your weapon of choice, as well as create more armor to make you stronger.

In a world exclusive, Mecha Damashii can reveal that Armored Core V will explain how the Raven's Nest began as a school for ninjas with a talent for falconry.

While it's hard to tell where the homage ends and genuine cultural absorption begins with the Japanese and their (perfectly reasonable) obsession with Mobile Suit Gundam, I do find the use of Gundam as a reference point interesting, because much as the mobile suit's use in Gundam is to provide a vehicle that can operate equally well in space, under Earth's gravity, and in the artificial «gravity» of O'Neill cylinders, Vanquish is taking the commonly used Western term «space marine» quite literally, as Vanquish's power armor seems to be designed both as a spacesuit and as body armor, used to infiltrate a structure floating in space.

His armor begins to fall off, his weapons become rusty and chipped and he literally shrinks in size as his strength depletes.

With each monster comes a set of armor and weapon choices, and as you start to enter the high level hunts, you can begin to craft high level gear.

As Cozette's routine unfolds, this thin fissure in her performer's armor widens to let in a holy terror that takes over her mind: She begins to lock in on faces in the audience.