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- From: parr@acs.ucalgary.ca (Charles Parr)
- Subject: Re: On the nature of armor....
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 16:24:30 GMT
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- In article <57683@dime.cs.umass.edu> gray@ibis.cs.umass.edu (Lyle FitzWilliam) writes:
- >I usually deal with light blows this way: If the blow landed
- >cleanly (edge-on and unobstructed), but light, I will consider
- >that the _first_ time this has happened has scored the armor, the
- >_second_ time it has broken the armor (rendering the armor
- >useless for protection at that location), and the _third_ time to
- >have been good (no armor remaining to protect). Also, if someone
- >can hit me in the same place three times cleanly and
- >unobstructed, even if they're only hitting me lightly, than I'm
- >doing something wrong, and need to take a break and think about
- >my defense.
-
- There is a problem with this approach to gauging (and let me note
- now that Lyle's approach to gauging is very similar to my own,
- because I have never found a better solution)
-
- The problem is that *very* light blows, the sort that strike your
- helmet, can be felt, but do not transmit much force (IE, move the
- helm) can be delivered using techniques which could simply *not*
- be "pumped up" enough to damage through armour.
-
- An excellent example is a blow delivered with the wrist only,
- a sort of saber flick. Because all of the body language the
- attacker shows in blow development is absent, the little wrist
- flick blow can often be landed with ridiculous ease, yet even
- if my opponent has arms like king kong, it will not be hard
- enough to pierce armour. Thus if we start taking such blows
- as "good", we have gone (even farther) from practicing
- medieval combat to practicing "tag" with sticks.
-
- Carolus Malvoix
- Montengarde An Tir
- --
- Within the span of the last few weeks I have heard elements of
- separate threads which, in that they have been conjoined in time,
- struck together to form a new chord within my hollow and echoing
- gourd. --Unknown net.person
-