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Re: Low-Tech Armor - Proposal for some modifications
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If you review the description and look up the examples listed there, you should be able to tell the armour referred to by those two game terms apart. (GURPS Brigandine is cloth or leather covering small plates with similar length and width, Segmented Plate is long narrow plates exposed to view).
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Eh, you've got to have the area near the hip and the area around the knee as segmented already. Eyeballing it, I'd say the amount that needs segmented works out to roughly 1/4 to 1/3 the length of the thigh armor. Going off of the (revised) Low Tech numbers, full length DR 4 thigh armor made of segmented plates weighs a total of 8.1 lb. Full length DR 4 thigh armor made of plates, if possible, weighs a total of 5.4 lb. The segmented/solid hybrid would weigh between 6.075 lb and 6.3 lb. So, you'd be doing a good deal of extra work to save the person a pound on each leg. Considering that the upper arm armor appears to only cover from the outside, it doesn't seem unlikely that the leg armor might be similar, at which point you're only saving something like half a pound per leg. At that point, I could easily see a competent armorer deciding it wasn't worth it.
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06-09-2016, 08:18 AM | #18 |
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06-09-2016, 10:15 AM | #20 |
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If that's the case, then LT has it wrong and should have plate cost less than segmented plate. Perhaps there are cases where a sufficiently skilled armorer can fashion plate faster than segmented plate, but the increased price of the former implies it is at the very least harder to do so (I'd imagine shaping a large plate into precisely the right shape is a good deal less easy than doing the same for smaller plates), which means it's what I would call "more work." Armor that has some "give" - a bit of flexibility - like segmented plate can probably be made to less-tight tolerances than armor with absolutely no give.
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