JDolan

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Got A Weapon or Armor Question?

@Dinh AaronMk: 6 easy steps (Note, this is something of a joke, given the vagueness of the question)

1 - Buy/find a GAU-8 or M61 cannon.
2 - Buy at least 4,000 rounds if you want to fire it for any appreciable amount of time. (cost of shells is an estimated $100 USD per bullet - it'll be expensive!)
3 - Hook the guns up to a power source.
4 - Press trigger
5 - Go brrrrt until the gun is empty.
6 - YOu have now brrrted, and wasted nearly a half million dollars for one minute of thrill.

Got A Weapon or Armor Question?

There are also several types of scale armor, and not all of them were instantly abandoned the moent plate came out. You have the more "traditional" fish scale armor, little miniature plates laced over leather harnesses worn over a leather jack, as well as layered, sewn plate armor, which is a type of scale armor, quite popular in Europe amongst those unable to afford a full plate suit. There were also Japanese, CHinese, and Russian armor well into the early modern era were made of variations of scale armor.

And as for Europe, they did have the brigandine which was a variant of scale - that his steel plates layered over each other forming breastplates resembling the traditional lorica segmentata of the Roman imperial era - and in the case of the brigandine, it is scale armor only in the sense that it is layered strips of metal: the brigandine grew not out of eastern or ancient lamellar or scale armors, but as an evolution of the coat of plates - that is, a predecessor of plate armor, though its construction (of small squares or slices that were riveted or sewn into a backing vest or similar) does make it somewhat analagous to scale armor.

As for scale's advantages - it is relatively cheap, sturdier than mail, and relatively easy to repair.

Further there's also a metallurigcal point to be made - while it is "easier" in some senses to make a single larger piece of steel of sufficient quality... It also takes a much higher degree of skill and much more time. By this, I mean that when making a breastplate out of just two or four pieces of metal, you get many more chances to screw up while fabricating that singular piece. And if you screw up on any fo those panels, you essentially have to start over with that panel. On the other hand with scale, the time to produce is much quicker, meaning that there's less opportunity to screw up its production - and when you do, you're not screwing up a massive piece of metal, wasting it...but just a single piece that takes much less time to produce.

~ Rainbow Six - White Flame ~

And on second thought, I think I will be pulling out. The obvious primary focus on fieldwork, as well as a certain amount of role overlap with my intentions. Best of luck you to lot with this.

Seas of Blood: The Premier Buccaneering Roleplay!

I'm gonna pull out since it's been so long, and...at the risk of speaking for @Lady of Lore, she as well from the sound of it when last we spoke a couple days ago on the subject. Especially since @TheIratePirate hasn't been on in over a week.

It was a promising idea, but it's fizzled. No sense sticking around I suppose.

Nioh: A Feudal RP [Recruiting]

You happen to have any extra space in here for one last person?

From Across the Sea - A Saxon 'Migration' RP

I might be up for this. If enough others show interest as well.

Tabletop Noob needs help with Ace Combat/StarFox based Flight RP!

Well, the best place to start is to get your hands on the rule sets for those games I outlined - also the Battletech rules for Aerospace. Read through them. Understand them. Then start fiddling and building stuff up to your liking.

Tabletop Noob needs help with Ace Combat/StarFox based Flight RP!

@Dynamo Frokane Basically custom-built rules. Making your own game, as it were from the ground up, or modifying an existing set of rules for your purposes.

Got A Weapon or Armor Question?

And as a former reenactor myself, feel free to direct 17-19th century queries my way.