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v0.31:Armor
Template:AV Armor is the protective equipment used to reduce/deflect damage coming from enemy weapons. It comes in several pieces, each one protecting certain area. The purpose of each piece is pretty much self-explanatory. Note that the breastplates only protect upper/lower torso areas, while the mail shirts also cover the upper arms. Throat, ears, nose, fingers, lips and teeth are exposed, even in full armor.
As 31.02, it is critical to equip your military dwarves with at least bronze armor. Testing in the arena shows that armored dwarves have huge advantage over the unarmored ones, usually taking no casualties while making short work of their enemies. It should be noted that armor material is extremely important now, for example fully iron-armored dwarves with iron short swords stand no chances against steel equipped ones. Same material cutting weapons cannot pierce same material armor(steel short swords vs steel armor). Try going for adamantine, since it is pretty much common material now.
It is unclear whether the armor user skill affects combat in any way, since the movement speed and armor penetration looks the same for legendary armor users and untrained users.
Bugs
A metal breastplate currently only requires 1 bar of a metal to forge; however, when out of bars, the announcement seen reads
- "Urist McArmorsmith cancels forge <x-metal> breastplate: needs 3 <x-metal> bars."
A similar situation exists with chainmail (40d:chain armor), but with an announcement re "2 bars". Since in 40d a breastplate (40d:plate armor) required 3 bars and chain required 2, it's a good bet that this can be viewed as a (minor) bug.