Heavy Armor vs Agility. Preferences, anyone?

[DukeKurts]

The thought about armor vs agility has been going on in my mind for quite a while, so I decided to ask you all what you think.

Personally, I'll put on as much armor as I can get my hands on, only falling short of wearing so much that I can hardly move.
Call me a coward, but the longer anyone can survive in battle, the more damage they will end up doing. (Barring them being total half-wits & utterly incompetent fighters) 


- The Grand Emperor

 

[tangodown72]

Medium/Light armor + Glaive, outrun anything that poses a serious threat.

 

[DukeKurts]

Cavalry? Then again, I guess you can dodge 'em to the side and give them a good whack. Still, it's hard to outrun cavalry.

 

[galenus]

Every so often I find myself in a tight spot stuck in with a big group.  The ability to run away from them would be nice...but I can't help but love the 0 Damage love taps they land on my plate.  I can usually outlast them, or at least take out a lot of them before I go down.  If I had lighter armour I'd probably be dead before I could find a way out.

 

[Katou]

I like to siege castles so I prefer armor over agility. Make sure you get 'Running' though or you will be extremely slow.

 

[The Napster]

Well this depends...
For example what kind of environment I am.
In sieges heavy armor, big shield, bow and arrows with 2-h axe so I don't drop dead on "ladders" by archers.
In normal combat medium/light armor and 2-h axe and bow (and maybe medium size shield) and let hunt begin 

 

[Ringwraith #5]

Medium/Light armor + Glaive, outrun anything that poses a serious threat.

Even if you can outrun everything else, you cannot outrun arrows.

My preference is both heavy armor and agility.  With plenty of points in athletics you can move pretty damn quick even in surcoats or plate, well enough to outrun guys wearing shirts or leather.

 

[The Napster]

Medium/Light armor + Glaive, outrun anything that poses a serious threat.

Even if you can outrun everything else, you cannot outrun arrows.

But you can dodge arrows easily... just move right and left when approaching archer

 

[vorudain]

I hate the apperance of plate armor, but if it would look nice to me, I'd use it. I say, be a tank, get a LOT of agility and acrobatics, and then you'll be a tank that walks instead of crawling.

 

[Humanoid]

Does heavier armor provide more protection?  For example, I'm currently wearing some real light weight chain mail but it has +40 to body and I still take shots for 50-60 damage.  If I was wearing armor that had +40 body but weighed 20 instead of 12 would it protect better?  I like the lighter armor so I can move within my pack of infantry but too often a pike or bolt sneaks in and 1 shots me.  I could better getting hit in the face, but it doesn't say in the damage counter.

 

[vorudain]

It does. Headshot. Head protection is only a question of Helm.

 

[Ringwraith #5]

But you can dodge arrows easily... just move right and left when approaching archer

Assuming you see (or even notice) everyone who's shooting at you, yes. In my experience, enemy archers turn up in all kinds of inconvenient places, often so that I'm under fire from several directions. I got fed up with being taken out by archers who have for some reason decided to attack me across the whole battlefield even though my troops' charge was just about to crash into them, so I've just taken to wearing as thick a lump of metal over my virtual self as I can find.

 

[Durandal]

If you use a horse, athletics doesn't matter and encumbrance doesn't matter, so it makes sense then to use the heaviest stuff you can find. That's what I do. I go around battlefields acting like a Swadian Knight on steroids.

 

[The Napster]

But you can dodge arrows easily... just move right and left when approaching archer

Assuming you see (or even notice) everyone who's shooting at you, yes. In my experience, enemy archers turn up in all kinds of inconvenient places, often so that I'm under fire from several directions. I got fed up with being taken out by archers who have for some reason decided to attack me across the whole battlefield even though my troops' charge was just about to crash into them, so I've just taken to wearing as thick a lump of metal over my virtual self as I can find.

Well I am all the time looking around my environment
On sieges it's pretty easy to spot them
On normal combat just ride all the time on horse full speed (get 2-handed axe and start attack with side swings to their heads) and it's rare then to get hit

 

[radicalhit]

if i play infantry or archer then id go for the some really light clothing. if im going on horse, im obviously going to be the first to charge into the enemy lines so i put some inches of armour between me and them.

 

[Durandal]

I like to siege castles so I prefer armor over agility. Make sure you get 'Running' though or you will be extremely slow.

I agree here. Sieging castles without my nice Reinforced Full Plate would be a lot tougher. I crank my athletics a little bit too, so I have some pretty decent mobility, and can keep up with heavy infantry wearing chainmail or a surcoat.

 

[Dryvus]

Mounted - heavier armour.
Pedestrian - lots of athletics, medium armour.

 

[G36E]

Nothing beats Light Leather Armour for forcefieldism. (Seriously, 30+ defense for only 5.00 encumbrance)

 

[clixer]

I'm Always on foot, weather it be in an open field or a siege I NEVER use a horse so speed is important... for both when all MY soldiers are dead and there is 50 people after me.. or when there are only a few enemies left and I gotta run up and pwn em so.. thick great helm + chain and a balanced great axe

 

[tangodown72]

Medium/Light armor + Glaive, outrun anything that poses a serious threat.

Even if you can outrun everything else, you cannot outrun arrows.

Arrows are used by only cowards, a coward can never harm a manly man.