Plate Armor vs. Chainmail

[lord of flies]

Plate armor is objectively better than chainmail in pretty much every single way possible. Chainmail leaves all the weight hanging on the shoulders and so it is actually less easy to move in, in addition to being worse protection, and heavier. Plate armor, on the other hand, is mobile and easy to wear. People wearing plate armor can run, jump, do cartwheels, leap onto a horse without using the stirrup, jump over a horse, et cetera. Please make sure to represent this in your game, that I backed, THANKS IN ADVANCE.

[Troller]

Interesting, always the chainmail in the D&D I used to play had better mobility than the plate armor...

[The Sharmat]

I think this actually depends entirely on what you want out of your armor. Chain is heavier, less comfortable, and more expensive, but distributes force more efficiently than plate, so is better against piercing weapons and arrows. Of course nothing will save you from a couched lance to the chest delivered at full tilt. I could also be a jerk and point out you could wear plate and mail at once, but...yeah I'm doing that.

 

And what's wrong with lammellar armor? It's like a bunch of little plates. Flexible and sturdy.

[mkreku]

I want reactive armour. As soon as someone sneezes in my general direction, I blow up like a fat hand grenade with legs.

[Troller]

I want reactive armour. As soon as someone sneezes in my general direction, I blow up like a fat hand grenade with legs.

haha thats insane man, never heard about that before

[lord of flies]

I think this actually depends entirely on what you want out of your armor. Chain is heavier, less comfortable, and more expensive, but distributes force more efficiently than plate, so is better against piercing weapons and arrows. Of course nothing will save you from a couched lance to the chest delivered at full tilt. I could also be a jerk and point out you could wear plate and mail at once, but...yeah I'm doing that.

 

And what's wrong with lammellar armor? It's like a bunch of little plates. Flexible and sturdy.

lol, yeah the armor with holes in it is better for resisting arrows than the armor without holes in it. Look at the huge noob here. They invented chainmail piercing arrows in the 9th century. Get outta town 'fore a Viking shoots your ass with a bodkin arrow.

[Humanoid]

Might depends on how much the game breaks down the armour slot in terms of separate pieces of just having one unified 'suit'.

 

 

Bennett's chainmail vest shouldn't affect mobility overly much.

 

[Gazoinks]

Might depends on how much the game breaks down the armour slot in terms of separate pieces of just having one unified 'suit'.

 

 

Bennett's chainmail vest shouldn't affect mobility overly much.

 

He's staring into my soul... judging... Why...