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Originally Posted by sir_pudding
There's no reason to just target thighs if they have shin armor though. There's no game benefit of hitting thighs, it is just a normal leg hit, so you are better off targeting the unarmored parts of the leg in total.
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As explained before, using HTWIH and getting a -6 malus to target one thigh, which has a surface equal to 22.5% of torso area, isn't both realistic and playable, especially when you can target one hand (5% of torso area surface) at -4. Out of armour coverage, there are at least two additional reasons to target thighs instead shins: 1) you can hit the femoral artery with a cutting/impaling/piercing hit; 2) if you fight bare-handed,
Hurting Yourself (B379) applies on shins (despite having DR 0) but not on thighs.