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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ArmoredSaint" data-source="post: 4833236" data-attributes="member: 54539">Not necessarily.  For most of the Hundred Years War and the Wars of the Roses, the English made their heavily-armoured knights and men-at-arms dismount and fight on foot with their archers.  I suppose that depends on what you're striking him with.  A wielder of a pick or mace designed to injure an opponent in heavy armour might well expect decent results with a solid blow, but you could bang your sword (especially a sword wielded in one hand) all day on a man in full plate, and still not do him any appreciable harm.  And that being so, I argue that the character in heavy armour should still have a higher AC than any high-dex character in no/light armour.</blockquote>