To hopefully allow this thread to get back on track, here's two divergent threads... one for reinstating Sombre:
http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/showthread.php?t=45498
and my own to get ideas about how people feel about the "realism" of armor in Dom3, since Sombre requested that we not discuss that here:
http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/showthread.php?t=45500
Moving along...