Board Thread:Roleplay Ideas/@comment-25975584-20160313234656/@comment-26863727-20160314023609

The Indomitable wrote: Aramirtheranger wrote: Atmora will rip some Variag ass! Considering Atmora is infantry, and melee based... The Vigilants and Sagittarius Auxilias (you can't pay them off, they're called Auxilias but they aren't in the historical sense), Tripraetors are heavy cavalry, and Vigilants can ride if need be. Besides, they choose their battlefields. They'll fight you somewhere cavalry are ineffective, and take away your biggest advantage. On foot Variags would lose big time, especially against the Hastati, since the testudo basically negates archers.

And, their recurve bows would be incapable of piercing the thick armor of a Tripraetor or Praetorian, and a legionnaire's lorica hamata would be fair protection. The draw weight of the strongest recurve bows are about 60 pounds, that's not enough to pierce the 3 mm standard on Atmoran metal plate. To pierce the plate and padding beneath while still actually hurting the guy underneath, you'd need about 600 Joules of energy behind the arrow to hurt a Praetorian, plus an additional 120 Joules against a Tripraetor, since they also have mail beneath their breastplates. So, 720 Joules of force behind the arrow on the chest of a Tripraetor, and adding the plackart on the rest of the torso, 1,320 Joules to pierce the strongest point of a Tripraetor's armor. 1,320 Joules is the sort of number that a handheld weapon didn't produce until guns got invented.