Primitive Armor

Cloth Armor

Description	Protects	Armor Score			Injury Susc.	Blunt	Pad	Mass	Price	Activation
		Mech	Burn	Arc
Gambeson	4-5 2-3,6-8	-2 -3	+0 -1	+½ -½	+4½ +4	+3 +2	-1 -3	10	8	4 5
Silk Gambeson	2-8	+2	-1	+0	-2	+2	-3	10	10	4
Silk Armor Vest	4-6	+1	-2	-1	+½	+1	-5	3	3	4

• Gambeson: A gambeson is a knee-length coat made of many layers of thick, quilted linen cloth. A high collar will protect the neck (hit location 1) if the activation roll for the helmet fails by 1. It is used by soldiers who cannot afford metal armor.
  
• Silk Gambeson: A gambeson made of silk. Armor of this style is common on Zhǎngshān, where high strength silk can be harvested from the native autotrophes.
  
• Silk Armor Vest: Another common piece of Zhǎngshānese silk armor, for discrete protection.
  

Buff Coat

Lamellar Armor

Leather Armor

Description	Protects	Armor Score			Injury Susc.	Blunt	Pad	Mass	Price	Activation
		Mech	Burn	Arc
Buff Coat	2-8	-6	-4	+½	+6½	-3½	–	3.5	10	4
Leather Gloves	2-3	-6	-4	+½	+10	-3½	–	0.45	1.2	8
Boots	9-10	-6	-4	+½	+10	-3½	–	0.45	1.2	8
High Boots	9-10	-6	-4	+½	+8½	-3½	–	1	2.5	5
Cuirbolli Suit	4-5 2-3 6	-2 -3 -3	+0 -½ -½	+4 +3 +3	+5 +8 +7½	+4 +3½ +3½	+0 -1 -1	6	25	4 9 5
Cuirbolli Cuirass	4-5	-2	+0	+4	+5	+4	+0	4	18	4
Cuirbolli Vambraces	2-3	-3	-½	+3	+7½	+3½	-1	1.2	7	8
Cuirbolli Leg Armor	7-8	-3	-½	+3	+6	+3½	-1	2.5	15	5
Cuirbolli Lower Legs	9-10	-3	-½	+3	+6	+3½	-1	2.5	12	6
Cuirbolli Helmet	1	-2	+0	+4	+6½	+4	+0	1.5	8	6(8f,4b)

• Buff Coat: A buffalo leather jacket with a long skirt that covers the thighs.
  
• Leather Gloves: A pair of long heavy leather gloves to protect thet hands from incidental damage. If worn with other arm armor, the gloves will protect the wearer if the arm armor activation roll fails by 3 or less. When worn, the user has the Thick Fingered 2 flaw.
  
• Boots: Sturdy boots for working or hiking.
  
• High Boots: These leather boots come up to the knee, thus providing a slight degree of protection to the entire lower leg.
  
• Cuirbolli Suit: A suit of hardened leather consisting of a torso piece, a skirt covering the hips, and pauldrons covering the upper arms.
  
• Cuirbolli Cuirass: Hardened leather armor covering only the torso.
  
• Cuirbolli Vambraces: Hardened leather forearm armor. If worn with the cuirbolli suit, the activation for hits to the arms decreases to 6.
  
• Cuirbolli Leg Armor: These might consist of cuisses strapped to the thigh or tassets hanging from other hip armor.
  
• Cuirbolli Lower Legs: Boiled leather greaves (shin and thigh armor) or schynbalds (shank straps).
  
• Cuirbolli Helmet: The most basic head protection, a shaped helmet of hardened leather worn over a padded cap.
  

Mail

Description	Protects	Armor Score			Injury Susc.	Blunt	Pad	Mass	Price	Activation
		Mech	Burn	Arc
Mail Hauberk	4-8 2-3	+0 +0	-½ -½	c c	+1½ +3	+2 +2	-2 -2	12	50	5
Mail Haubergeon	4-6 2-3	+0 +0	-½ -½	c c	+2 +3	+2 +2	-2 -2	10	40	5
Mail Chausses	7-10	+0	-½	c	+1½	+2	-2	8	30
Mail Sleeves	2-3	+0	-½	c	+3	+2	-2	3.5	12	5
Mail Vest	4-6	+0	-½	c	+2	+2	-2	6	25
Light Mail Vest	4-6	-1	-2½	c	+2½	-1	–	4	20
Heavy Mail Vest	4-6	+1	+0	c	+½	+2½	-1¾	8	35
Mail Coif	1	+0	-½	c	+4	+2	-2	1.8	7	4(7f,2b)
Camail	1	+0	-½	c	+5½	+2	-2	0.8	3.5	*
Mail Gauntlets	2-3	+0	-½	c	+5½	+2	-2	0.7	2.5	10

• Mail Hauberk: A hauberk is a knee-length coat of mail.
  
• Mail Haubergeon: A haubergeon is a waist-length, long-sleeved mail shirt.
  
• Mail Chausses: Chausses are mail pant-legs, worn up to the crotch with extentions that attach to a belt to hold them up.
  
• Mail Sleeves: Sleeves of mail can be attached to a sectional cuirass for arm protection.
  
• Mail Vest: This vest allows protection of one of the most vulnerable parts of the body for relatively little weight or cost.
  
• Light Mail Vest: A vest designed to be concealed under clothes, for discrete protection from assassin's blades. This vest is assumed to be worn over a simple cloth undergarment that provides little padding, in order to keep it more concealable.
  
• Heavy Mail Vest: The armor of the chest was often made of thicker rings to provide greater protection. A hauberk or haubergeon made with a heavy mail chest section increases the mass and price by the difference between that of the heavy mail and normal mail vest, but provides the protection of the heavy mail to the torso hit locations.
  
• Mail Coif: A coif is a mail cap that protects the head and drapes down to the shoulders to protect the neck.
  
• Camail: A mail curtain hung from a helmet to protect the neck. When worn, it protects against any attacks from the back that make it past the helmet's activation, and attacks from any direction in which the activation roll fails by 2 or less.
  
• Mail Gauntlets: Gauntlets are armored gloves. These mail gauntlets are mittens of mail with a free thumb. If worn with a mail garment with full-length sleeves (such as the hauberk or haubergeon above), there will be no activation roll for blows to the arms. Gauntlets are somewhat clumsy – when worn, the user has the Thick Fingered 3 flaw but their extra weight and hard striking surface allows +½ RS Pen to any punches.
  

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