[LT] Centaur Armor
 

We have a centaur in our group. How do we buy LT armor for him ?

I tend towards using the percentages for horses for everything except those for the horse head, and then human percentages for torso, head and arms.

Are there other ideas ?

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I'd do exactly the same thing. It makes sense.

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That seems reasonable, although I think that most images of centaurs I've seen tend to have their horse parts somewhat smaller than a typical warhorse. I'd say a typical fantasy artwork centaur was based on something like a 14 hand pony.

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Then again, IIRC, LT horse armor doesn't differ between ponies and warhorses.

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Yes. What I am mainly unsure about is the neck. The horse neck is a 50% location and at least overlaps with the human torso, or, to put it another way, does the human torso replace the norse neck completely ?

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Hmm. Wouldn't this result in the centaur being unable to move? Or do centaurs have huge ST?

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I assume that BL is based on horse torso ST to calculate encumbrance. At ST 18 that´s BL 65. And the centaur only has to consider the weight of armor, weapons and equipment - there is no seperate rider who is the heaviest item when calculating encumbrance for horses.

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Judging from the pictures I found on google, the torso replaces the neck.

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I would give the centaur all human hit locations above the waist (with human-sized armour) plus a horse Torso, Forelegs, Hindlegs, Tail, and Groin (with horse-sized armour). Also see the Quadruped hit location table p. B553.


Isn't 14 or 15 hands high a typical warhorse height? I'm not sure if I recognize the other differences, like a thicker barrel and shorter, studier legs, in fantasy art. Anyways, GURPS has a house policy of not differentiating armour costs and weights between things with the same SM and racial template.