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[Felblood]

Dividing plate mail out into seperate parts like that isn't really a bad idea. It allows players to start making plate a bit at a time (spreading out the metal cost), and gives the player a better sense of the weight and configuration of the armor. Adding new plate armor types could be the work of adding some tags to the body part raws, so modders can give lizardmen tail armor or whatever.

Breaking down armor so it protects each of the specific parts of the body on the wounds list, is probably even quite feasible. The tendency of DF is, to my observations, to shy away from abstraction, particularly with anything involved in combat, so my generic armors are probably going to go the way of the dodo eventually, anyway.

It'd probably be best to name them things like "Shoulder guard," "Breast plate," "Arm Guard,"  "Elbow guard," Etc. instead of trying to recreate any single system of archaic terminology. This avoids any specific allusions to the style of the armor, and mitigates pedantry, since nobody can say the term in question is incorrect to much as just vague. (Nothing, of course, can completely eradicate dictionary thumping from a forum.)

This would also nerf you ability to steal people's armor mid-battle, which is good.