Have you ever actually swung a sowrd at someone or had one swung at you? From your statements, I'd hazard a guess that the answer is "no"
Any SCA folks on the boards want to weigh in on the value of armor, cause folks just aint beleiving me when I say that knowing you are not going to get cut up like a meatloaf matters. Light-weight (less material needed) yet resiliant (C is unbreakable) IS the holy grail of armoring. Always has been, always will be and the improvement of C over steel/iron is anything but marginal.
Look elsewhere for my opinion of C weapons, in a nutshell, they have no benefit unless you have modern computer controlled manufacuting techniques (able to make micrometer fine edges), and even then the benifit is slight because you need some mass behind the weapon.
Not sure of your impracticls criteria. I have discussed manufacturing elsewhere, and it is very simple, even full plate becomes much easier because the much thinner sheets allows shaping around forms to bechilds play, especially since you do not have to worry about temper.
Summation: It is easier to make armor plates that are intended to be transformed, and the final product would be much more effective. In my book that makes it a "no-brainer"
Any SCA folks on the boards want to weigh in on the value of armor, cause folks just aint beleiving me when I say that knowing you are not going to get cut up like a meatloaf matters. Light-weight (less material needed) yet resiliant (C is unbreakable) IS the holy grail of armoring. Always has been, always will be and the improvement of C over steel/iron is anything but marginal.
Look elsewhere for my opinion of C weapons, in a nutshell, they have no benefit unless you have modern computer controlled manufacuting techniques (able to make micrometer fine edges), and even then the benifit is slight because you need some mass behind the weapon.
Not sure of your impracticls criteria. I have discussed manufacturing elsewhere, and it is very simple, even full plate becomes much easier because the much thinner sheets allows shaping around forms to bechilds play, especially since you do not have to worry about temper.
Summation: It is easier to make armor plates that are intended to be transformed, and the final product would be much more effective. In my book that makes it a "no-brainer"
Functional Cuendillar Armor: Possible or impossible?
10/02/2012 04:45:34 PM
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You posted this exact same question one year ago, with a lot of discussion
10/02/2012 06:29:28 PM
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I suppose I am on a...
10/02/2012 11:00:47 PM
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Re: You posted this exact same question one year ago, with a lot of discussion
10/02/2012 11:04:33 PM
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Re: You posted this exact same question one year ago, with a lot of discussion
11/02/2012 01:37:27 PM
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My thought was always about weapons.
11/02/2012 06:31:45 AM
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Certainly possible, but given the effort most women have to put toward changing even a small item
12/02/2012 05:10:35 AM
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Ummm, Warders...
14/02/2012 01:39:23 PM
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How would Cuendillar armour help against channelers?
14/02/2012 07:58:58 PM
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It can not be directly effected by the OP
14/02/2012 09:08:57 PM
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some simple ideas for defeating warders armoured such.
14/02/2012 09:52:41 PM
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Re: some simple ideas for defeating warders armoured such.
14/02/2012 10:54:26 PM
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which way is it?
15/02/2012 04:14:41 AM
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Actually I'd call the Seanchan tactically inferior to the White Tower in using the power
15/02/2012 01:48:55 PM
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That's really not my point.
15/02/2012 03:21:15 PM
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I never said that they could not be stopped
15/02/2012 01:58:41 PM
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I really think you're over-estimating how difficult it would be.
15/02/2012 03:22:44 PM
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Not nesecarrily
15/02/2012 04:01:45 PM
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You just said that most of their tactics are indirect.
15/02/2012 05:44:22 PM
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..and you are creating new tactics
15/02/2012 06:32:02 PM
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*shrug* I don't see it as some world-shaking action
15/02/2012 08:47:40 PM
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But it is brand new, and if you're digging holes earth-shaking seems discriptive
15/02/2012 09:14:12 PM
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Not accurate
15/02/2012 03:54:00 PM
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You are thinking too far inside the box
15/02/2012 04:23:28 PM
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I disagree
15/02/2012 04:43:33 PM
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If armor is of no benefit...
15/02/2012 06:19:30 PM
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Missing my point ... Cuendillar armor is impractical not useless
15/02/2012 07:00:48 PM
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nope
15/02/2012 07:21:03 PM
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*Shrug*
15/02/2012 08:28:48 PM
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Re: *Shrug*
15/02/2012 09:07:24 PM
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No way they could pull off what you are talking about with current tech
16/02/2012 01:55:19 AM
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Re: No way they could pull off what you are talking about with current tech
16/02/2012 03:23:34 PM
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Re: It can not be directly effected by the OP
15/02/2012 02:37:40 AM
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Maybe, maybe not
15/02/2012 02:12:59 PM
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Re: Maybe, maybe not
15/02/2012 06:11:42 PM
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I'll happily amend my initial statement to "maybe even challeling ones"
15/02/2012 07:03:48 PM
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what a lot of people are forgetting with their suggestions of plate armor...
13/02/2012 02:36:50 PM
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Your understanding of how plate armor functions is in error
14/02/2012 01:45:37 PM
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I believe AND I was hoping you would go into the physics of it :p
14/02/2012 11:01:18 PM
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