walltar
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Well if you can loot skeletons before they reform just loot his leg and leave poor bugger to his fate. What would you do with old totally rusted armor anyways?I agree that the sword wasn't really designed for fighting armor. Some large swords were meant to be used upside-down (held on the blade and swung like a hammer) against heavy armor.
Still, it's not like swords won't do damage against armor. Even in plate mail, you're still getting hit with a lot of hard steel. (Did some searching, apparently plate mail was usually only 1 to 3mm thick)
Anyways, I have a skeleton-related question. Should they be able to wear armor? If an armored skelly get smashed up, does the armor fall off (can the player loot it) before the skeleton starts to form back together?
I think if you use sword against heavy armored oponent you are going to have bad time ... sword weights around 1-1,5 kilos, so if you strike plate you do nothing maybe slight bruising. Maybe if you used big 3kg doublehander you could do some damage but generaly you have to strike less armored parts so you are not efficient. If you are going against heavy armor use war hammer ... i love that weapon pointy end on one side blunt on the other, you have answer to all your enemy needs.
And about thickness ... What was worn underneath plate? Was there another layer of amour or only padding?