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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Thorvald Kviksverd" data-source="post: 250472" data-attributes="member: 1495">I guess it depends on how you envision things working <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />For myself, I like to think of (heavy) crushing weapons as not doing as much damage to an unarmoured foe as an arrow or sword, but being MORE likely to score at least a bit of damage through heavy armour.  Also, rather than worrying about dividing and rounding, I would advocate having a base AV that is multiplied by some value vs weapons that are not as effective at penetrating it.  So, to use your ratios, but with (heavy) Crushing weapons being most effective at penetrating armour (leaving aside distinctions between armour types)...CRUSHING (Low Base Dmg):  Normal AVSLASHING (Avg Base Dmg):  x2 AVPIERCING (High Base Dmg):  x4 AVCertain weapons, such as picks, would be special cases...perhaps doing average damage vs normal AV.  While longbows might do high damage vs x2 AV, or somesuch; and a fist might do low damage vs x4 AV.  Anyway, the exact numbers aren't important at this point.</blockquote>