40d Talk:Armor

Corrected the matter with low and high boots. If you look at the raws you can see that the armor level of both boot types are the same and thus they can both be used as chain and plate armor. My games have proved this to me. Only real difference between the two boot types is that the high boot is heavier and protects more of the body than just the feet. Noctis 05:18, 22 December 2007 (EST)

Does anyone know the rules of where you can wear each piece of armor? For example, can you wear a high boot and leggings? or only low boots with leggings? Do you need to make two boots? --Mitchy 20:30, 9 November 2007 (EST)

You can wear high boots with leggings. Leggings and high boots have different layers. --JT 17:15, 11 November 2007 (EST)

On a similar note, what's the difference between steel leggings and steel greaves? I would've thought leggings would cover below the knee as well. Do I need both to provide maximum Xtreme protection? Runspotrun 15:17, 18 November 2007 (EST)

As far as I can tell, greaves are the Plate class upgrade to leggings, which are Chain class lower body armor. Unlike upper body armor however, dwarves don't appear to be able to wear both leggings and greaves at once and will drop their leggings in favour of a set of greaves when set to Plate armor. --TangoThree 14:03, 25 November 2007 (EST)

I would like to know if it's possible to find out the various protection values of different types of armor. For example, we know the material and quality modifiers for armor, but not, say, how much better plate mail protects you than chain. Or whether greaves or high boots offer more coverage. I ask because I'm wondering if, with high quality modifiers, adamantine clothing is viable protection for those who aren't wearing armor. Certainly, it'd make a good halfway measure for those who can't do magma smelting yet, but can get a Craftsdwarf's Workshop, Loom, and Clothesmaker's Workshop set up to extract the threads, weave them, and make clothes. --Alfador 11:48, 13 December 2007 (EST)

Soldier

I think some of this article, specifically that stuff in the Using armor section, should be moved over to an article more dedicated to soldier preferences. As it is, it's describing everything about arming civilians with weapons instead of simply talking about armoring civilians; that content seems more appropriate for an article about soldiers or the hunting article. --JT 17:15, 11 November 2007 (EST)

Verified

I can verify that whan setting dwarves to chain, they wear gauntlets --Nog 16:21, 12 November 2007 (EST)

Table

I added a Materials Needed section to the table. Is this OK? --Nanor 19 December 2007

Excellent idea. It looked a little odd in the table, so I moved it to the text instead. --Turgid Bolk 16:47, 19 December 2007 (EST)

Much better! Thanks! --Nanor 17:50, 19 December 2007 (EST)

23.130.23a

We had much more info on armor in the old wiki. Could someone with an account there bring the relevant bits over? VengefulDonut 11:18, 22 December 2007 (EST)

Leather Armor re: Caps and Helms

A soldier set to leather armor can wear leather helms, not just caps, and they'll wear a cap at the same time underneath (at least, if it's silk. I haven't confirmed yet if a soldier will wear a leather cap + a leather helm; doesn't really matter). This is a good thing because helms (according to the old wiki) have higher Block. They're heavier too but this shouldn't be a problem, with the weight reduction from using leather it should be 15 stones vs the 5 stones that a leather cap should be. I'd go ahead and add this to the article but I'm worried I'd mess up the table. :) --Stromko 19:57:15 (PST), January 08 2007