NOOB: Wanting a 'stormtrooper build' (Heavy armor, small guns, high AP)

[Average-Steel]

I'm not an expert when it comes to underrail builds- so I was wanting some advice for creating one that focused around squeezing as much AP as one possibly could- from wearing heavy armor, while using small guns, and melee (Knives, Machetes, Pistols, SMGs etc) Been wanting to try a playstyle akin to a German Stormtrooper from WW1, and wanted to see if there was any chance this build could even work- considering High AP, and Heavy Armor don't mix very well.

[Ederson]

Adding Temporal Manipulation would be against the build principle?

[Ederson]

I have made an SMG build which kinda goes into the theme you want.

https://underrail.info/build/?HggNBgcDAwZQMgDCoAAAVgAAAABwcA4yKwAAAEYAAFrCozkrTxYVN8KHJkkkRVUqJ8Kz4qeCAuKnqgPita4K374

It is a super steel build, which will have around 50% armor penalty exactly for the juggernault feat. And it is also a stealth build. Though it can be quite grindy to farm the money to buy the super steel plates.

It is gonna use the unique 7.62mm SMG from the gray army and the comando belt from the GMS compound raiders.
https://www.stygiansoftware.com/wiki/index.php?title=RRCh-42

https://www.stygiansoftware.com/wiki/index.php?title=Commando_Belt

All in all, it is not super optimized and you can change a few things here and there but it is strong enough to have a good time on normal(mainly because SMGs are extremely strong). It is also an hybrid of stealthy evasive build but not completely glass canon.