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<blockquote data-quote="James Lockart" data-source="post: 5995138" data-attributes="member: 6698208"><p>Ablative Armour is intended to be a plot item, one member of the party get's it for plot reasons to make an otherwise extraordinary difficult mission &quot;moderate.&quot; Also, armor was still effective against lead round up until we started using copper jackets (has nothing to do with the &quot;hardness&quot; of the copper and everything to do with the fact the bullets were moving so fast bare lead would melt in the barrel from friction.) Bullet &quot;proofing&quot; was an old way of testing armor. They would shoot it and place a decorative mark around the dent as &quot;proof it would stop a bullet.&quot; The main reason we switched from bows to guns was the dramatically simplified logistics. It can take days to weeks to learn to shoot a bow, it takes hours to days to learn a gun. Then the musket men could carry 100 rounds or more when the archer only had a few dozen. Wounds to fleash also tend to be nastier with bullets but I'm starting to digress.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="James Lockart, post: 5995138, member: 6698208"] Ablative Armour is intended to be a plot item, one member of the party get's it for plot reasons to make an otherwise extraordinary difficult mission "moderate." Also, armor was still effective against lead round up until we started using copper jackets (has nothing to do with the "hardness" of the copper and everything to do with the fact the bullets were moving so fast bare lead would melt in the barrel from friction.) Bullet "proofing" was an old way of testing armor. They would shoot it and place a decorative mark around the dent as "proof it would stop a bullet." The main reason we switched from bows to guns was the dramatically simplified logistics. It can take days to weeks to learn to shoot a bow, it takes hours to days to learn a gun. Then the musket men could carry 100 rounds or more when the archer only had a few dozen. Wounds to fleash also tend to be nastier with bullets but I'm starting to digress. [/QUOTE]

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