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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Thresher" data-source="post: 812052" data-attributes="member: 9983">Padded armour is relatively resiliant against piercing attacks but it gets ripped to pieces against anyone with a slashing weapon. It may have some nominal effect against bludgeoning, but it is a really awful armour.Leather/Hide type armours dont stop a lot of slashing type damage, but they are resiliant towards piercing damage and bludgeoning. As for things like 'studded' youre more or less looking at early composite type armours that tried to offset leather being cut to pieces by swords and the studs made it look more intimidating.Banded mail, Im not sure this armour ever really existed so I find it hard to comment on it. Im sort of thinking its what roman legions wore around the 3rd century, the carapace type plate armour with leather reinforcements and straps. In which case it would be resiliant to slashing and bludgeoning.Chainmail is intended to stop slashing attacks, which it does very well, it fares quite poorly against piercing and dosnt stop much in the way of bludgeoning either. The undershirt of chainmail armour someone mentioned is basically 2 cotton shirts padded with wool or hemp, it is not intended to stop anything except to cushion the weight of the armour and keep it off bare skin, underclothes. By its very nature chain carries most of its weight on the wearers shoulders.Plate-type armours are more or less designed to be resiliant to most types of slashing, bludgeoning damage, you can pierce them but it isnt very easy. The advent of heavy plate armours saw the introduction of things like military picks, dirks, crossbows and later on- firearms, to try and punch holes in them. They dont have a lot of weaknesses at all to exploit apart from the weight.The Breastplate and half-plate will have the same effects but the wearer is essentially 'less' covered with the armour, which its lower AC reflects. Both these where more common after the invention of firearms where soldiers still wanted some armour but they eventually fell into disfavour because of the weight and cost.People like Spartans also wore the 'book' version of the breastplate before anyone else did.Scale armours. These where relatively uncommon, the Persians used to have some of their heavy cavalry in scale armour and so did the romans early on. It is a surprisingly effective armour but very expensive to manufacture and suffers from the same problems that chainmail does, it rests very heavily on the shoulders of the wearer. Beating the owner to death should work ok, as would slipping a piercing weapon between the scales, but slashing is highly resistant.That help you any?</blockquote>

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