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Old 01-12-2018, 09:32 PM   #25
DouglasCole
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Default Re: Fantasy Trip Glitches, Contradictions, Ambiguities

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Originally Posted by tbeard1999 View Post
In the Real World, didn’t “light” combat systems evolve because gunpowder ultimately reduced heavy armor?
While some of this happened, the vikings were a swing in the heavy-light-heavy trend in infantry. They wore very little armor, it seems. Of course, we're very very limited in the physical archeology for those guys.
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