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Originally Posted by EskrimadorNC
I'm not sure how you gather that. Historically, the torso (and arguably the head) was always the most armored body part for people routinely engaging in melee combat. Why on earth would you slow yourself down and interfere with your ability to move/fight if there was only a 1 in for 4 chance that a landed blow would hit there?
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It is much easier and less encumbering to armor the torso than to armor the limbs, and hits to the torso are (in reality, at least) more likely to be incapacitating than hits to the limbs. GURPS doesn't model this very well (it ignores location when considering weight, and non-impaling wounding modifiers aren't adjusted for the limbs).
In reality, people don't attack the limbs because they're high value targets. They attack the limbs because they're easy to hit.