The Question, Aruak City (dm 11), turn 426:
If a warrior is wearing plate and he is hit on the hand or ankle does he get the same amount of protection? It seems to me the most you could wear on your hand is Chainmail. -- Hanibal, Q.O.W.
The Answers, turn 427:
Q.O.W. -- I think if you wear armor of chainmail or lighter, the protection to your limbs is limited, certainly not to a degree equal to the armor you are wearing over the body. But I think with platemail or full plate, the armor protects your limbs well. Gauntlets, which I imagine being used with platemail and up, are steel plates, so they protect better than chain. I think this is played out well in our fighters' fights. I've seen chain wearing warriors who are tough go down with one shot to the leg, while the same warrior in platemail takes one or two more hits. You'd be surprised at how well medieval gauntlets' metal plates flexed for hand movement. -- Adie
QoW -- When using heavy armor, the limbs seem to be less well protected than the chest and abdomen. I base this observation mainly on the number of ineffective ("bounced") hits seen against the torso compared to the limbs. The lighter armors don't seem to have this difference. -- Generalissimo Puerco
Hannibal -- Questions! Great, I've missed them. Unfortunately, I can't offer much help on this. I do know that to rely on "it would logically seem that" is the way to get into trouble, unfortunately. After all, it would logically seem that a basher should be well-suited to using the fist, and this is not so. So I can't guess about the "armor for hands and feet" question. -- Leeta
Hannibal -- Take a good look at a suit of full plate some time. ; Everything EXCEPT the head is protected, unless you're wearing a helmet of some sort as well. If you're going to have warriors wearing APA, you better put them in a Helm or a Full Helm as well, otherwise you may as well send them out in leather. A hit to an unarmored head and you're APA is worthless. -- Talon, War-Priest of Mantor the Bright
The Question, Aruak City (dm 11), turn 427:
All -- I was looking at a fight a few turns ago with Predator (Broadsword fav). In min 1 he attacked 12 times w/ BS and only 1 crit. Min 2 six normal attacks, weapons breaks, pulls his epee and throws three crits in a row. He always threw more crits using an epee even though he is -6 in Deftness to use it. He used a BS in two other fights with no crits. This makes me wonder; are favorites generated after your warrior graduates? -- Hanibal Q.O.W.
The Answers, turn 428:
Q.O.W. -- From my understanding, favorite weapons are generated when your warrior is created, and the bonuses are applied in basic. However, I have experienced similiar situations to what you have seen with Predator. I have a lunger who never seemed to throw a crit with the short spear, but constantly threw crits with the longspear even though he wasn't quite suited to it in strength or deftness. I felt certain the longspear was his favorite weapon because of this, and was highly shocked when upon graduation the shortspear was listed as his weapon of choice. -- the Outsider
Hanibal, Q.O.W. -- From what I have experienced and discussed with other managers, fighting rhythm, weapon, learns and tactics are determined upon creation. Did you change rhythms during any of these fights? Was your attack rating high or low at the time? If all is the same, and you throw more crits with an epee, maybe you should send your "favorite weapon" to hell and go with what works. After all, the whole point of finding your fave weapon is to increase your crit percentage. Although, it would be nice to have BS crits over the EP crits (except for the knockdowns!) -- Dr. Strange
QoW -- Well, now you're understanding why I don't make too much of an effort to try to find a warrior's "favorite" weapon. Finding a weapon they win with is much more important, and Predator certainly had no problem winning. I think people have had enough cases where a suspected favorite weapon was confirmed to suggest that a warrior's favorites are determined before AD, but the exceptions such as Predator's are numerous. I'll bet Adie will have more to say on this matter, since it seems like it happens to her warriors a lot. -- Generalissimo Puerco
Q.o.W. (Fav Weapons) -- I was the closest thing the KoV had to somebody who found their favorite weapon in basic. But since I got my advanced master in attack so soon it's hard to tell. We really haven't noticed our warriors having a favorite weapon in basic. I personally think there may be something to what you're saying. But I think most people believe that it's there all along. -- Maxwell Honorblade
Hanibal's Question of the Week -- No, favorites are generated when the warrior is first created. Unless you get a favorites-prize and use it on a warrior, his favorites always and forever remain what they were at the time of generation. -- Leeta
Q.O.W -- BS favorite and no crits sounds typical for a lot of warriors. Or GA...or BA...or even SC. Sometimes, favorite weapons just don't serve. I have a WS in Primus with GA favorite and Grandmaster Attack who throws more normals than crits with her favorite. To make matters worse, I have a LU in Primus with Archmaster Attack who still throws normals...with her favorite and with LO. Some warriors, in my experience, just don't throw crits like they should. Others will go crazy with their favorite weapon in basic, right from the start. I've discovered many favorite weapons that way over the years...then again, I've also THOUGHT I'd discovered favorite, only to have them be something else. I've always thought that somewhere, a bit is kept with each warrior for how experienced they are with any given weapon... and if you use a weapon enough, you get better with it (skills not withstanding). I can't prove it, but watching some of my LS and SS, SH and MS favorite warriors using SC and LO, you see improvement over time, even when they aren't getting more attack.
-- Talon Warsmith, Epee favorite
Hanibal, Q.O.W., favorites are born with the warrior. It's just that sometimes they seem hard to believe. -- Kennelworth
Q.O.W. -- I've always understood that a warrior's favorite weapon is generated right at the beginning. I have however, had the similar experience of throwing more crits with a non-fav weapon. -- Anti