[LT] Leather (& Textile) weight issues and Scaling to size.

DanHoward · 08-20-2012, 06:29 PM

The base line was DR 2 hardened leather that was made from 16-18 oz leather. Everything else was extrapolated from that and then tweaked to fit the rest of the list. The main objective was to get leather to fit into a more realistic place in the comparative protection list. Assuming all are of equal weight the order of protection should be something like

Leather
Rawhide/Hardened leather
Padded cloth/Felt
Layered leather
Layered cloth
Scale
Lamellar
Mail
Brigandine
Segmented plate
Solid plate

It probably means that LT leather armour is a little too heavy compared to realistic values.

08-20-2012, 06:29 PM	#2
DanHoward Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Maitland, NSW, Australia	Re: [LT] Leather (& Textile) weight issues and Scaling to size. The base line was DR 2 hardened leather that was made from 16-18 oz leather. Everything else was extrapolated from that and then tweaked to fit the rest of the list. The main objective was to get leather to fit into a more realistic place in the comparative protection list. Assuming all are of equal weight the order of protection should be something like Leather Rawhide/Hardened leather Padded cloth/Felt Layered leather Layered cloth Scale Lamellar Mail Brigandine Segmented plate Solid plate It probably means that LT leather armour is a little too heavy compared to realistic values.