![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() but when I am strolling in a town or inside a building I go the more skimpy route. I mostly play female characters and my current character uses armor like Eisen Platte Armor or grace darklings ranger armor when in comabt. It all comes down to how you want your character to look, style of fighting, and be portayed. Some of those large heavy armors wouldn't make it any easier to fight with than having skimpy clothing on. I feel a lot of the large armors are just as impractical at times as the skimpy ones. ![]() If people do not like a certain armor mod they don't have to use it. It's better to have options than none at all. It all comes down to personal preference and I personally feel it's great that there are options to choose from when it comes to armor. I think a lot of people have already covered good points in here. Plus I think it's an insult to the hard-working modders who create them, I'd hate for people to assume something about me just because of my work.Įdited by thefudgestix, 06 September 2012 - 12:51 AM. I don't mind them at all, a lot of them are quite sexy! As long as they're well made then I'm all in =3. So yeah, this female says yeah for the skimpies! Admittedly in my Maid Marion playing days I did not wear a leather bikini (far too many midges in Sherwood Forest, they bites us, yes they does.)but as I was then a willowy thing I did have a fetchingly low cut leather jerkin and tight leather pants. But even that was hazardous - Henry VIII was almost killed in a fall in the tiltyard by the weight of his armour. In the tiltyard you didn't need to steer as you just charged a straight course. Absolutely no way could you steer a horse with your legs (the hands presumably would be wielding some axe, sword or mace)in a battle situation, if you were wearing plate greaves. That's why even royalty and nobility, fighting mounted, would wear a plate cuirass and leather or chainmail greaves. If you were unhorsed wearing full plate (which could be pierced by an arrow fired by an English or Welsh longbowman anyway) you would not have had time to heave yourself off your back before the lightly armed peasant from the opposing side had managed to shove his pointy stick down your gorget and kebab you. If you were wearing plate, you would not have been able to move without your trusty steed. Full plate was simply never seen outside the tiltyard. By the time we Brits got to royally owning our neighbours over in France repeatedly during the Middle Ages (another reason for my thoughts on Skyrim crossbows being PFFFFFTTTT ROFL.)as well as fighting amongst ourselves during the Wars of the Roses, we had also got preached at a bit and had taken to putting some clothes on to go into battle. They are, if anything, far less realistic than skimpies. It also grinds my gears every time I see full coverage tin can armours described as "realistic" or "lore friendly". Even in Britain, the wild Celtic warriors greeting Julius Caesar frequently wore very little more than their woad and a ferocious grimace (yeah why DO we have blue painted Nords in TES Games, that was a Celtic not a Nordic thing.) Always makes me hoot with laughter when we get this lofty disapproval of skimpy armors, considering that a lot of tribes have in the past and do now fight naked or very near naked. ![]()
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