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What armor did the dwarf make? He made greaves. Armok bless those 8 people who voted greaves.

armor
- 10 (18.9%)
greaves
- 8 (15.1%)
helm
- 6 (11.3%)
chain leggings
- 2 (3.8%)
boot
- 27 (50.9%)

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Melzer

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Artifact armor
« on: February 26, 2012, 03:22:25 pm »
How does bone armor behave in combat and how good is it?
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Re: Artifact armor
« Reply #1 on: February 26, 2012, 03:24:47 pm »
It won't beat the protective value of anything metal or better. Still looks good and would make awesome for ceremonial purposes :P
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Re: Artifact armor
« Reply #2 on: February 26, 2012, 06:00:10 pm »
What is the most important object to every dwarf ever? What is worth risking ones live to save from the dangers of the outside world? A sock.
And what piece of armor protects the sock? The boot of course!
Simple logic.
And since the best sock is always the left one, every artifact shoe is also left.

Edit: Bone armor is weak... but it looks cool :]
« Last Edit: February 26, 2012, 06:01:52 pm by KtosoX »
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Re: Artifact armor
« Reply #3 on: February 26, 2012, 06:11:21 pm »
I feel like it's cheating if I've seen what it was :P
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Re: Artifact armor
« Reply #4 on: February 26, 2012, 06:14:47 pm »
Bone Greaves,
because Bone Greaves sounds better than Bone Boots, Armor, Helmet or Bone Chain Leggings
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Re: Artifact armor
« Reply #5 on: February 26, 2012, 06:16:05 pm »
Bone chain leggings sounds HARD to make...
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Re: Artifact armor
« Reply #6 on: February 26, 2012, 06:22:02 pm »
Bendy little fish bones. Lots of them. Yak bones? Shave them into bendy little yak bone bits.
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Re: Artifact armor
« Reply #7 on: February 26, 2012, 07:27:11 pm »
I've sort of wondered if it's easier to dodge in lighter armor.

As far as I can tell, though, high quality bone and leather armor gets shredded by goblin bows and arrows.  :(  I like to embark somewhere with obsidian for rock short swords and just watch a military of twenty sworddwarfs with primitive bone, leather, and rock equipment take about 15 casualties repelling a single goblin ambush.  It's nice how they somehow get their hands chopped off when throwing them in a danger pit against a goblin thief.  I like to let them keep their daggers so my military dwarves get plenty of scars.
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Re: Artifact armor
« Reply #8 on: February 26, 2012, 07:38:14 pm »
Can some one tell me how my Gold breast plate fares in combat? my militia captain has got it on over some chainmail..
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Re: Artifact armor
« Reply #9 on: February 26, 2012, 08:37:00 pm »
It's been my experience that gold armor is best suited for ceremonial positions (think Royal Guard Captain).  I had a an artifact gold boot once, goblin chopped through it with a copper sword and the severed part sailed off in an arc immediately.  He may have just gotten lucky (or my dwarf was unlucky), as it wasnt prolonged testing :p
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Re: Artifact armor
« Reply #10 on: February 27, 2012, 04:14:03 am »
Quote from: Washcloth on February 26, 2012, 07:38:14 pm
Can some one tell me how my Gold breast plate fares in combat? my militia captain has got it on over some chainmail..
You know how gold is. It's bendy, it's heavy. So it's not very effective in combat.
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Re: Artifact armor
« Reply #11 on: February 27, 2012, 05:01:30 am »
Unless you make a golden warhammer out of it  8)
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Re: Artifact armor
« Reply #12 on: February 27, 2012, 05:45:57 am »
Moody dwarfs seem to have a preference for making boots. Maybe because they're leg-end-ary. :P
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Re: Artifact armor
« Reply #13 on: February 27, 2012, 05:48:50 am »
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Moody dwarfs seem to have a preference for making boots. Maybe because they're leg-end-ary. :P

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Re: Artifact armor
« Reply #14 on: February 27, 2012, 05:56:54 am »
Got me a nickel low boot. I wonder if that's at all a useful item? Probably not, but the artifact bonus should a bit, right?
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