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Khaine's Plate Armor Guide
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--the armour itself has lost a lot of weight. Not enough to make it as light as a feather; this stuff is still heavy. The inherent beauty of how this armour functions, however, is in the way it evenly distributes weight across the body. Plainly speaking, you can walk, run, fight, and even jump in a properly constructed suit of plate armour. How?
Imagine placing a big block of metal, say, 40 pounds worth of metal, in a backpack, and wearing said backpack. Pretty heavy, right? You probably feel a lot of weight concentrated in a few areas. It's the same concept as if you wore a chain mail hauberk. Lots of weight, distributed to a few areas = feels heavy as hell. Now say you got tired of lugging this block of metal around. You decide to chop it up, and put a few pounds in your backpack, fasten a few pounds to your arms, hold a few pounds of metal in your hands...and so on, until now what you've got is a lot of weight, distributed over a much wider area. A bit like plate armour. You probably feel lighter, and your movement might not be hindered as much as if you were walking around with a 40 pound backpack.
....Bad metaphor. I know. But it gets the story told, and the concept stated.
Overall point is, although a /lot/ more than what can be covered in a video game has to be factored in to determine the ability of a person when wearing armour of any kind, unless this plate armoured guy was wearing Transitional-Era Armour (sans additional, extenuating circumstances ie. the armour was never designed for the wearer's build), he'll almost certainly still be able to run around, swing his sword, jump, and kill ya.
Hope this helps
Imagine placing a big block of metal, say, 40 pounds worth of metal, in a backpack, and wearing said backpack. Pretty heavy, right? You probably feel a lot of weight concentrated in a few areas. It's the same concept as if you wore a chain mail hauberk. Lots of weight, distributed to a few areas = feels heavy as hell. Now say you got tired of lugging this block of metal around. You decide to chop it up, and put a few pounds in your backpack, fasten a few pounds to your arms, hold a few pounds of metal in your hands...and so on, until now what you've got is a lot of weight, distributed over a much wider area. A bit like plate armour. You probably feel lighter, and your movement might not be hindered as much as if you were walking around with a 40 pound backpack.
....Bad metaphor. I know. But it gets the story told, and the concept stated.
Overall point is, although a /lot/ more than what can be covered in a video game has to be factored in to determine the ability of a person when wearing armour of any kind, unless this plate armoured guy was wearing Transitional-Era Armour (sans additional, extenuating circumstances ie. the armour was never designed for the wearer's build), he'll almost certainly still be able to run around, swing his sword, jump, and kill ya.
Hope this helps
14-Oct-2013 23:41:23 - Last edited on 15-Oct-2013 00:37:02 by Aivas
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