[safisher]

Axes and polaxes, halberds, glaives, etc are historical weapons used again armored foes. The surviving manuals indicate they were used in armored combat. Did they slice through armor like a hot knife through butter? No, and I don't suggest so. What I do think is the ultimate issue is not armor DR by mm or damage by ST but misunderstanding wounds and the vagaries of HP. A 1" wide and deep wound sounds quite small, but where that wound is matters quite a lot. Further, and this is also important and overlooked, is that bleeding probably also counts for FP loss, too. Further, armor damage should reduce DR, channeling blows into damaged areas, reducing the glancing attributes of armor, etc. The complexity of the whole system really prevents us from modeling much of it in a game rules set assuming we don't start with the same point in mind. Screaming about "evidence" is really not going to get you anywhere in and of itself.