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Breastplate and Metal Cap

12 (36.4%)

Mail Shirt and Metal Helm

8 (24.2%)

Breastplate and Metal Helm

4 (12.1%)

Mail Shirt and Metal Cap

6 (18.2%)

Other (please describe)

3 (9.1%)

Total Members Voted: 33

Voting closed: December 23, 2012, 10:53:09 am

[Oaktree]

Curious what your goblinite is composed of.  A majority of the goblin civilizations encountered so far use the breastplate/cap combination that is so very vulnerable to axe dwarves.  But the mail shirt/helm combination has been seen as well; which is a bit more resistant to axe attacks, but allows the hammer dwarves to shine a bit more.

[XXSockXX]

I've been seeing a lot of metal helm / leather armor goblins lately. I've seen breastplates, but don't remember ever seeing caps and mailshirts. Also I've never seen armor on other body parts, even if the raws had them. I play with pretty short history mostly, don't know if that influences these things.

[Loud Whispers]

Mail shirts and caps for me mostly. Very few shields too, my goblins seem to be the archetypal skirmishers of the Dwarven world.

[Urist Da Vinci]

Can we somehow make the goblins wear groin/leg armor?

[Splint]

I've seen a mixture of mail, plate, cap and helm, with leather armor mixed in along with full armor on some weaponmasters; it's usually sans gauntlets and boots though: Helm, mail shirt, breastplate, and normally greaves for these individuals. May depend on the world though because I don't think goblins always have access to leg armor besides thier clothes.

[Akura]

My current fort has had breastplates and helms, with helms (I don't remember if the breastplates did) decorated with their insignia(and designated for melting, I don't want my military wearing such a symbol). The most recent siege, however, had leather armor. The metal stuff was usually iron.

[vjek]

I removed armor from them to stop collection jobs, and removed all their military professions so they're all wrestlers.

Naked wrestler goblin invaders.  Just the way I want them. 

(but in vanilla, they invade with caps and breastplates)

[Sutremaine]

Can we somehow make the goblins wear groin/leg armor?

You could give the goblins special armour that occupies the same slot as mail, but covers much more of the body (as a cloak does). This would make it more attractive to poach unless you change goblin size to make the armour large or small to dwarves and therefore unwearable.

[ikachan]

I've got a pit full of about 50 goblins so I will check to see what their combination of armour is.

EDIT: I sampled 10 goblins in the pit and found that they all wore the same thing: mail shirt & metal helm

[Bigheaded]

on my second year of my current fort, i'm getting a shed load of leather, unsurprisingly, but cloaks can be handy.

managed to catch and kill a good 4-5 snatchers, the thieves seem to be wearing 2 items of clothing and a dagger.

Never really paid that much attention, i seem to get a very decent amount of shields though.

[MythagoWoods]

Most goblins I find tend to have a metal breastplate and cap.  If they're a general/lord they tend to be in almost all metal armor, or so it seems.  The standard run of the mill goblins always seem to only have leather armor... unless it's a siege than they tend to have at least 1 metal armor, typically a cap which doesn't help them much against a wall of serrated discs.

[Siru]

I've been getting iron helms and copper breastplates in my current fortress. They also seem to like troll fur/hair cloaks.