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clu2415 · 04-23-2018, 09:46 AM

I think it comes down to how historically rooted your games are. In the real world, plate armor lead to specific fighting styles and weapons to deal with it. Some people are going to want their games to involve having to wrestle a plate armor-clad warrior to the ground and shove a dagger in his faceplate. Some games will be in ahistorical settings where different cultures bring more effective weapons against plate armor and some games will have epic and fantasy themes where more people and creatures have he strength to make plate irrelevant. Should plate mail be harder to penetrate in *all* of these games?

04-23-2018, 09:46 AM	#28
clu2415 Join Date: Jun 2016	Re: Should Plate Armor be Harder to Penetrate? I think it comes down to how historically rooted your games are. In the real world, plate armor lead to specific fighting styles and weapons to deal with it. Some people are going to want their games to involve having to wrestle a plate armor-clad warrior to the ground and shove a dagger in his faceplate. Some games will be in ahistorical settings where different cultures bring more effective weapons against plate armor and some games will have epic and fantasy themes where more people and creatures have he strength to make plate irrelevant. Should plate mail be harder to penetrate in all of these games?