[Low-Tech] Padded Cloth and Layered Armour penalty

[Anthony]

Originally Posted by Tomsdad

EDIT: this raises a possible wider system point. Does GURPS make legs too easy to hit?

My experience is that the legs are not especially hard to hit, but unless your opponent is really sticking his front leg out, you need more reach to hit them, so in a cascading wait situation (which is actually very very common) you lose out timing-wise to someone with an equal length weapon.