ID:154423
 Oct 5 2001, 4:32 am
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I'm looking for some sort of reference, either online or off, that would have information regarding the effectiveness of various armor types against different weaponry. Having never found myself in a situation requiring armor, I'm a bit clueless as to how effective plate mail was against blunt/crushing type weapons as opposed to slashing or piercing types. Same goes for the various other types of armor. Granted, 99% of gamers probably have no idea either, so whatever I decided was right would be fine with them, but I'd like to grab that other 1% as well if possible.
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Flick wrote:
I'm looking for some sort of reference, either online or off, that would have information regarding the effectiveness of various armor types against different weaponry. Having never found myself in a situation requiring armor, I'm a bit clueless as to how effective plate mail was against blunt/crushing type weapons as opposed to slashing or piercing types. Same goes for the various other types of armor. Granted, 99% of gamers probably have no idea either, so whatever I decided was right would be fine with them, but I'd like to grab that other 1% as well if possible. A really good artical to read is here: http://www.mu.ranter.net/theory/weapons.html | |
Shadowdarke wrote:
Palladium published a book called "The Compendium of Weapons, Armour & Castles" by Matthew Balent that has a wonderful breakdown of many armor types into gamer terms. Thanks.. I'll have to see if I can find that book. I have been using Spuzzum's code as sort of inspirational material. :) - Spuzzum is a mild-mannered reporter for a metropolitan newspaper by day. By night, however, he is Superman! Okay, so he made both of those things up, but he's still really clever. heh.. | |
Botman wrote:
A really good artical to read is here: http://www.mu.ranter.net/theory/weapons.html Wow... that whole site is really fascinating. Got a ton of ideas reading through it. Thanks! | |
Flick wrote:
Botman wrote: Welcome. =) It's amazing some of the stuff he's written. | |
Flick wrote:
I'm looking for some sort of reference, either online or off, that would have information regarding the effectiveness of various armor types against different weaponry. Having never found myself in a situation requiring armor, I'm a bit clueless as to how effective plate mail was against blunt/crushing type weapons as opposed to slashing or piercing types. Same goes for the various other types of armor. Granted, 99% of gamers probably have no idea either, so whatever I decided was right would be fine with them, but I'd like to grab that other 1% as well if possible. www.sca.org Talk to the people who wear the stuff! Good luck! | |
Spuzzum has an interesting armor system tutorial: http://byond.com/hub/hub.cgi?qd=hubIndex;hub=126
I forget how many armor types he outlines, but the system is very nice!