Question about Ulm/Armor

[littlemute]

I'm still trying the demo waiting for the full to arrive in the mail and I chose iron dominion Ulm to have some fun with forging.

So I forge up some suits of black armor, a helmet and various weapons, but then when I slap them on say a Lord Guardian or Black Knight lord, his defense/protection goes DOWN from his normal equipment? Does this mean I need to just put that stuff on other, lesser troops or amy I missing something?

Thanks

[Cohen]

Those armors are more cumbersome ... so while they raise your protection, as counterpart due to heavy wheight they lower your defence.

[littlemute]

Originally posted by Cohen:
Those armors are more cumbersome ... so while they raise your protection, as counterpart due to heavy wheight they lower your defence.

Which armors? the forged ones or the ones that come with the unit automatically? I guess I don't well understand the difference between protection and defense either.

[Cohen]

Don't remember exactly, however:

Defence: is the skill of dodging, parrying and avoid strikes. When someone attacks you there's a confrontation beetween his attack skill and your defence (Att+2dd vs Def+2d6, rolls open ended - if a dice has rolled 6, it rolls again and adds the new number).

Protection: this is usually your armor, thick skin, or other type of magical defences.
If the attacker strikes successfully, he does some damage on the struck unit, and protection diminuish it.
(weapon damage + wielder strenght + 2d6 open) - (protection + 2d6 open).

Armor piercing weapons/spells halves the protection value.
Armor negating weapons/spells ignore protection value.

I hope I've been clear in explaining since I'm not a native english speaker, I'm Italian.

[Master Shake]

If their protection went down, consider the following:

Your commanders are already wearing very good armor (they come with that when you recruit them). So, you probably made armor that was worse than what they were already wearing.

[littlemute]

Originally posted by Cohen:


I hope I've been clear in explaining since I'm not a native english speaker, I'm Italian.

You did great! I understood it.