New Armour and Shields table, take a look

[bergh]

First i will say thanks for those people helping me finding some good armour pages on the net.

Here are my new armour table:

www.fflr.dk/tabletop/TROS/Armour.pdf
The biggest change i think is the ½ modifer rule and the shield rules.

www.fflr.dk/tabletop/TROS/protectionandlocation.pdf
And here are some armour diagrams we use in our TRoS game.
how to read it:

     V
  5/0/4
1-3/4/5-6

means that under location V, when looking up in Damaga location table, and you roll a D6, and the roll is 1-3 then there are 5 points of protection, 4=no protection, and last a 5-6 means that there are 4 points of protection. fast and easy. PS: the numbers are only for cutting and thrusting damage, Bludgeoning damage locations/tables are not the same!

what do you think about it?

[toli]

Brian

I emailed you some pictures of armor with the names....I couldn't figure out how to post them here...NT

[Caz]

Plate leg armour is generally called ciusse.  It can be further broken down into cuisse (upper leg) poleyn or cop (knee) greave (shin) saboton (foot).  There are other names for even more specific parts.
   Mail leggings are called chausses.
Haredned leather leg armour would go by the same name as plate armour.
   Non hardened leather leggings would simply be leather leggings or hose.

[Valamir]

Almost any good illustrated dictionary will have a picture of a full suit of plate mail with all of the individual pieces identified.  

After that a good search of those terms on the internet will give you a wealth of history and images.

[bergh]

hehe, my danish dictonary does only have danish names/terms.

But the pictures sent to my by Toli was great for future house rules and such, and will be easy to print out. Thanks Toli!.

Still i need the name of Chain mail pants?? maybe chainmail leg armor is good enough.

[toli]

Thanks Toli!.

Still i need the name of Chain mail pants?? maybe chainmail leg armor is good enough.

No problem.

I think mail leggings were called chausses or trews.  Something like that.  If you search around on google a bit you can find various sites with armor etc.  myarmory.com has some great pictures.

[Starshadow]

Here's a nice link for names of armor pieces

http://www.beautifuliron.com/armour_diagrams.htm

[bergh]

beautyful! thanks for that page, now i got enough to finish my new armor table

[ZenDog]

This is a very good one too. In terms of good quality pics of reprodcution, roman, viking and medievil arms and armour.

http://www.jelldragon.com/index.htm

[bergh]

I need one last information:

Was it not common to have a chainmail go down to the knee's protecting the thigh's?

[bergh]

its that useless?

[Brian Leybourne]

Was it not common to have a chainmail go down to the knee's protecting the thigh's?

Sometimes. You have a chain shirt (called a Birnie or a Habergeon) that goes to the waist (basically a t-shirt in coverage, although it may be long or short sleeved) and then you have a hauberk which hangs lower, protecting down to the thighs (but they're heavier, as you might imagine).

Brian.

[bergh]

a hauberk its named, alright now it would be more easy for me looking up information and adding it to my growing list of armours for TRoS.