The only way I can see making plate armour more realistic is if warband had a better hit...zone detecter? if it could detect wat kind of wep hit wat kind of area of a body and what kind of armour the person is wearing that would make it more realistic. that way we would actually have to aim for the joints of the armour to do damage if we werent using plate cracking weps. but warband sucks, wont see this happan in this game. maybe future games.