Editing A darker age armour

=MRQII Armour.[Revised]=
*[http://wiki.rpg.net/index.php/A_Darker_Age wiki]

=Body coverage=
*Head – Skull, face and neck. 19-20
*Arms – Shoulders through hands 15-18
*Chest - 13-14
*Abd – Abdomen12-11
*Hip - Hips and groin 9-10
*Upper Legs – Thighs 5-8.
*Lower Legs - Knees through feet 1-4
*There are considerd to be seven locations for encumberance purposes – the head, the chest, the arms [2], the abdomen, the hips, the thighs [2], and lower legs [2]. 

Base encumberance is per location. Complexity of armour for smaller areas accounts for increased enc in those locations.

=Armour ‘type’=
*Half Armour. Covers roughly half a location. Reduces AP and Enc.
*Field Armour. The 'default' armour rating. Base AP 
*Full armour. Total coverage of the location. Adds to AP and Enc.

=Materials: =
*All materials may be altered in weight to produce lighter armour, with corresponding changes in AP and Enc.
*Metals may also be made thicker and heavier. 
*They have been set to predetermined changes to make it work for the system optimum armour types – assume this is the equivalent of knowing the tradeoffs in the armoury business and how to build for them.

=Armour flexibility=
*Flexible armours can be worn under [or sometimes over] other armour types.
*Hard or semi-rigid armours can be worn under rigid armour only if carefully fitted. This adds to cost, generally doubling it.
*Rigid armours can only be worn on more or less inflexible parts of the body.
*All costs and enc are per location.

=The Base Armours=

Flexible Armour, organic.
*Heavy Layered or Quilted Cloth 1 [enc 0.5] cost 35s
*Leather, soft.1 [enc 0.75] cost 20s
*Linen 2 [enc 1] cost 75s
*Leather, Hard. 2 [enc 1.5]cost 40s
*Heavy Quilt 3 [enc 1.5] cost 115s

Flexible armour, metal.
*Light mail 4 [enc 2.5] cost 300s 
*Mail 5 [enc 3] cost 400s
*Heavy Mail 6 [enc 3.5] cost 500s

*Steel adds +1 to Mail. Costs double.
*Bronze is -1AP. Costs drop 20% 

Rigid armour, organic.
*Cuirboilli/Kurbul/Treated Hvy Leather 3 [enc 1.5] cost 80s
*Stiff Linen 4 [enc 2] Cost 250s

Rigid Armour, metal.
*Lt Bronze 4 [enc 2.5] Cost 600sp
*Bronze 5 [enc 3] Cost800sp
*Hvy Bronze 6 [enc 3.5] Cost 1000sp
*Lt Iron 5 [enc 2.5] Cost 1000s
*Iron 6 [enc 3] Cost 1200s
*Hvy Iron 7 [enc 3.5] Cost 1400s

*Steel Adds +1 to Iron plate. Costs double.

Hard [semi-rigid] Armour, Organic.
*Scaled Kurbul, Horn. 3 [enc 2.25]  Cost 100s
*Banded Kurbul 4 [enc 2.5] Cost 120s

Hard [semi-rigid] Armour, Metal. (Note: All these armours assume 1pt leather as a backing/coat. You may adjust enc and price for any other 1 or 2 pt flexible armour)
*Lt Ring 3 [enc 1.75] cost 150s 
*Ring 4 [enc 2.25] cost 250s
*Lt Scale 5 [enc 2.75] Cost 450s
*Hvy Scale 6 [enc 3.75] Cost 500s
*Banded Plate 5 [enc 2.75] 650s
*Plated mail 6 [enc 3.25] Cost 1200s
*Brigandine 6 [enc 3] Cost 1500s



*Bronze -1AP and 20% cheaper
*Worked steel is +1AP Cost is doubled.



*Encumbrance is done by location [sorry about the % stuff, but assume that all % changes are added and subtracted before armour enc is determined.]
Add the final Enc and divide by ten to get your Strike rank reducton and other effects.
A maximum of three layers of armour is arbitrarily declared, as it allows for pretty much all the historical examples I can think of.

=Full and Half Armours, layers=

*To get any basic 'full' or 'half' armour effects, work it by AP. Full iron plate (6AP) adds +2 to AP and 25% to enc. Half-plate becomes -2AP and -25% to enc. The same ratio is in effect for Kurbul but 2/3/4. 

*Armours of 1 or 2 AP are 'set' - they dont adjust.
*Armours of 3 or 4 AP can be made 'full' or 'half' by +1AP, adjusting enc and cost appropriately.
*Armours of 5 or 6 AP can be made full or half by +2AP, adjusting as above.

=Special Helms, etc.=
*You could get as complex as you want with this armour system – you could make armours to fit exact replicas of historical styles by fiddling with the layered coverages of different areas. 
*I suggest buying armour by the area and pulling it together as a basic armour ‘type’ appropriate to the era.
*An Open Helm, for instance, would be 'half' plate armour. A composite Helm would be 3/4 Banded with Heavy Leather instead of light.
A Kettle Helm would be 3/4 plate, a knights full helm complete plate (8AP, weighs a ton).


*I also declare a specialist skill for soldiers, warriors, etc called Wear Armour [con x 2] which is never rolled but reduces SR reduction by 1 for every 10% in the skill, to a maximum of half the armours reduction (rounding down but always at least 1).

*Warrior types get +10% in it, courtly types get it at base and add 10% to their courtesy, The reeve would have it at base and cop Streetwise at base. *The herbalist wouldn’t actually have it and can open a lore skill [something obscure] at 10% to compensate.