This debate has actually occured in real life recently, over the problems of
armoured vehicles vulnerability to overhead attack. The conclusion was that
the next generation of vehicles was going to have a reduction in armour level
of more like 1/2 from side to top, with the side being nearly 2/3 of frontal
armour thickness. This contrasts with current vehicles where the sides are
less than 1/2 of frontal thickness, and the top only about 1/10 of the frontal.
I would believe that with the transition/simplification from Striker to MT,
they (GDW) assumed that armour becomes nearly uniform (my relative thicknesses
above). This will make things like overhead attack moot... 8-)
- - -george
ps- We have some reports that a TL8-9 superpower on Terra just launched a
massive air assault on a TL7ish minor power that had recently invaded one of
its neighbors. In typical gaming style, it appears that of several thousand
sorties there were no losses to the attackers. Reality continues to be stranger
than fiction... 8-)