# Medieval Armour

*The Armourer, Armour for the Fantasy, Ranged, and Modern Armories. Source: https://exodusnds.com/sourcebooks/the-armourer/medieval-armour*

Eleven body armours, from quilted cloth to a fitted harness.

The ladder has three steps. Each step up costs Encumbrance and, at the top, Might.

| Weight | Resistance | Entries |
|:--|:-:|:--|
| Light | +1 | Padded Jack, Leather Jerkin, Hide Armour |
| Medium | +2 | Brigandine, Mail Shirt, Mail Hauberk, Scale Coat, Lamellar |
| Heavy | +3 | Coat of Plates, Half-Plate, Full Plate |

Reading the family in one view:

- **Mail** and **plate** deflect Cutting and are Vulnerable to Crushing. Bring a mace.
- **Padded** and **scale** are Vulnerable to Thrusting. Bring a spear or a bodkin.
- **Brigandine** has no gap, and **Lamellar** has none either. Both are priced for it.

<img class="framed" src="https://exodusnds.com/assets/sourcebook/the_armourer/the-armourer-medieval.jpg">

##### <span class="armour-bar light"></span>Padded Jack
<span class="weapon-aka">Gambeson, aketon, arming doublet, quilted coat</span>

<div class="armour light">

<span class="res">+1</span>
<span class="mdef">0</span>
<span class="rdef">0</span>
<span class="enc">2</span>

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<div class="armour-detail">

<span class="price">40</span>
<span class="avail">Common</span>
<span class="qual">Deflecting 1 (Crushing), Vulnerable 1 (Thrusting)</span>

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Twenty or thirty layers of quilted linen. It is the armour of every levy, and it is worn under mail and plate by everyone else.

It spreads a blow, so it is **Deflecting 1 (Crushing)**. A point goes between the stitches: **Vulnerable 1 (Thrusting)** means a spear or an arrow ignores its bonus.

##### <span class="armour-bar light"></span>Leather Jerkin
<span class="weapon-aka">Buff coat, cuir bouilli, boiled leather</span>

<div class="armour light">

<span class="res">+1</span>
<span class="mdef">0</span>
<span class="rdef">0</span>
<span class="enc">1</span>

</div>

<div class="armour-detail">

<span class="price">50</span>
<span class="avail">Common</span>
<span class="qual">Deflecting 1 (Cutting)</span>

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Hardened or heavy leather. It turns an edge and is light enough to wear all day. **Deflecting 1 (Cutting)** at Encumbrance 1.

##### <span class="armour-bar medium"></span>Brigandine
<span class="weapon-aka">Jack of plates, coat of nails, studded jack</span>

<div class="armour medium">

<span class="res">+2</span>
<span class="mdef">0</span>
<span class="rdef">0</span>
<span class="enc">3</span>

</div>

<div class="armour-detail">

<span class="price">450</span>
<span class="avail">Restricted</span>
<span class="qual">Deflecting 1 (Cutting)</span>

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Small plates riveted inside a fabric coat. It has no weak point and no particular strength beyond turning an edge. This is the generalist's armour, and it is priced above mail for that reason.

##### <span class="armour-bar medium"></span>Mail Shirt
<span class="weapon-aka">Haubergeon, byrnie, chain shirt</span>

<div class="armour medium">

<span class="res">+2</span>
<span class="mdef">0</span>
<span class="rdef">0</span>
<span class="enc">3</span>

</div>

<div class="armour-detail">

<span class="price">400</span>
<span class="avail">Common</span>
<span class="qual">Deflecting 1 (Cutting), Vulnerable 1 (Crushing)</span>

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A hip-length shirt of riveted rings. An edge slides off it. A hammer does not care that it is there: **Vulnerable 1 (Crushing)** reduces its bonus to +1 against a mace.

##### <span class="armour-bar medium"></span>Mail Hauberk
<span class="weapon-aka">Full mail, long hauberk, chain hauberk</span>

<div class="armour medium">

<span class="res">+2</span>
<span class="mdef">0</span>
<span class="rdef">0</span>
<span class="enc">4</span>

</div>

<div class="armour-detail">

<span class="price">550</span>
<span class="avail">Military</span>
<span class="qual">Deflecting 2 (Cutting), Vulnerable 1 (Crushing)</span>

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Mail to the knee and the wrist, with a coif. **Deflecting 2 (Cutting)** is the best protection against an edge short of plate. It keeps the mail shirt's weakness to Crushing.

##### <span class="armour-bar medium"></span>Scale Coat
<span class="weapon-aka">Scale armour, fish mail, lorica squamata</span>

<div class="armour medium">

<span class="res">+2</span>
<span class="mdef">0</span>
<span class="rdef">0</span>
<span class="enc">4</span>

</div>

<div class="armour-detail">

<span class="price">350</span>
<span class="avail">Common</span>
<span class="qual">Deflecting 1 (Cutting), Deflecting 1 (Crushing), Vulnerable 1 (Thrusting), Cumbersome 2</span>

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Overlapping scales sewn to a backing. Blows that fall from above slide off. A thrust from below lifts the scales: **Vulnerable 1 (Thrusting)**. It needs Might 2.

##### <span class="armour-bar light"></span>Hide Armour
<span class="weapon-aka">Furs, layered hides, hide and bone</span>

<div class="armour light">

<span class="res">+1</span>
<span class="mdef">0</span>
<span class="rdef">0</span>
<span class="enc">3</span>

</div>

<div class="armour-detail">

<span class="price">30</span>
<span class="avail">Common</span>
<span class="qual">Deflecting 1 (Cutting), Deflecting 1 (Crushing), Cumbersome 2</span>

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Thick untanned hides, often several deep. It is cheap, hot, and heavy. It deflects two types at rank 1 and pays with Encumbrance 3 and **Cumbersome 2**.

##### <span class="armour-bar medium"></span>Lamellar
<span class="weapon-aka">Laced plate, banded armour, o-yoroi</span>

<div class="armour medium">

<span class="res">+2</span>
<span class="mdef">1</span>
<span class="rdef">0</span>
<span class="enc">4</span>

</div>

<div class="armour-detail">

<span class="price">600</span>
<span class="avail">Military</span>
<span class="qual">Deflecting 1 (Cutting), Deflecting 1 (Thrusting), Cumbersome 2</span>

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Small plates laced to each other in rows. It is the only medium armour with Melee Defense, and it deflects both edge and point. It needs Might 2.

##### <span class="armour-bar heavy"></span>Coat of Plates
<span class="weapon-aka">Splint armour, pair of plates, transitional plate</span>

<div class="armour heavy">

<span class="res">+3</span>
<span class="mdef">0</span>
<span class="rdef">0</span>
<span class="enc">5</span>

</div>

<div class="armour-detail">

<span class="price">700</span>
<span class="avail">Military</span>
<span class="qual">Deflecting 1 (Cutting), Vulnerable 1 (Crushing), Cumbersome 3</span>

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Large plates riveted inside a coat, worn over mail. It is the cheapest +3 in the book and the first to need Might 3.

##### <span class="armour-bar heavy"></span>Half-Plate
<span class="weapon-aka">Munition plate, almain rivet, cuirass and tassets</span>

<div class="armour heavy">

<span class="res">+3</span>
<span class="mdef">0</span>
<span class="rdef">0</span>
<span class="enc">5</span>

</div>

<div class="armour-detail">

<span class="price">900</span>
<span class="avail">Military</span>
<span class="qual">Deflecting 1 (Cutting), Deflecting 1 (Thrusting), Vulnerable 1 (Crushing), Cumbersome 3</span>

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A breastplate, backplate, and thigh pieces, with mail or nothing on the limbs. It is what a paid soldier wears. It deflects edge and point and is **Vulnerable 1 (Crushing)**.

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##### <span class="armour-bar heavy"></span>Full Plate

<img class="framed" src="https://exodusnds.com/assets/sourcebook/the_armourer/the-armourer-arming.jpg" alt="Full Plate" loading="lazy">

<span class="weapon-aka">Harness, white armour, cap-a-pie</span>

<div class="armour heavy">

<span class="res">+3</span>
<span class="mdef">1</span>
<span class="rdef">0</span>
<span class="enc">6</span>

</div>

<div class="armour-detail">

<span class="price">1500</span>
<span class="avail">Rare</span>
<span class="qual">Deflecting 2 (Cutting), Deflecting 1 (Thrusting), Vulnerable 1 (Crushing), Cumbersome 3</span>

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A complete fitted harness. It is the only armour here with Deflecting at rank 2 and rank 1 together, and the only heavy armour with Melee Defense.

A sword does very little to it. What answers it is a hammer, a pick, or a poleaxe: **Vulnerable 1 (Crushing)** brings it to +2. It needs Might 3, weighs Encumbrance 6, and is made to measure.

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