Pharoah Kromium
Mongoose
Though I may well play the armour rules straight, on the basis that they fit in with the heroic milieu and REH stories, I do have a couple of gripes. The concept's great - armour reducing damage, not making you harder to hit - but there are one or two problems.
Mail: stops cuts great but without padding underneath all that kinetic energy of any hit is still going to do some serious blunt trauma.
"Quilted Jerkin" aka gambeson/aketon: seriously under-rated armour - mail is only really effective in combination with this. It's good stuff against blunt weapons, less effective against cuts and arrows.
Don't get me started on finessing with arrows...
Mail: stops cuts great but without padding underneath all that kinetic energy of any hit is still going to do some serious blunt trauma.
"Quilted Jerkin" aka gambeson/aketon: seriously under-rated armour - mail is only really effective in combination with this. It's good stuff against blunt weapons, less effective against cuts and arrows.
Don't get me started on finessing with arrows...