Armory Items

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== Armory Items ==
Welcome one and all to the armory, where you can find a whole host of different weapons, shields and armor! If you’re struggling to find ideas on what weapons you want to have - look no more for we have a whole host of different weapons you’re bound to find one that will suit you. It’s great if you’re new here or if you’re looking to find something new to master!
Gods allowed Stygian iron: Hades, Melinoe, Thanatos
== ARMOR ==
the bread and butter for any new demigod!
These do not count towards weapons slots
=== Helmets include: ===
Illyrian - open faced helmets with no nose protection, and a curved neck piece to protect the back of the neck
Corinthian - menacing helmets with protection for the nose and cheeks, almond shaped eye holes to look out of and a curved neck piece to protect the back of the neck
Spartan - much like the corinthian, with more square eye holes and sharper angular cheekbones with a red plume on the top
Chalcidian - lighter and less restrictive than the corinthian helmets, wider eye holes, smaller nose protection, no protection for cheek bones
=== Body protection includes: ===
Scale Armor - many small armor plates of various shapes attached to each other.
Chestplates - including bell cuirass and muscle cuirass - covering the chest, abdomen and back
Leather Spolas/ Linothorax - lightweight leather or fabric armor
Pauldrons - Protects shoulder/armpit overlaps with other armor over the upper chest and back
Poleyns - metal plates that protects the knee
Greaves - a piece of metal armor that protects the shins and lower legs.
Vambrace - Protects the forearm, elbow to wrist
Gauntlets - hand to wrist protection
=== Shields include: ===
Hoplon shield - big circular shield
Kite shield - shield shaped like a kite
Buckler shield - very small shield, circular in shape
Dipylon shield - full body length shields with two side openings
Pelta shield - crescent shaped shield
Tower shield - full body shield, rectangular in shape, very heavy
== WEAPONS ==
how else will you win in CTF?
=== Swords ===
the staple of many warriors!
Xiphos - leaf shaped, double edged, straight blade, one handed (45- 60cm)
Falcata - forward swept, single edged, curved blade, one handed (60cm)
Kopis - forward swept, single edged, curved blade, one handed (65cm)
Gladius - double edged, straight Blade, one handed (45 - 65cm)
Falx - sickle like shape, single edged, one/two handed (50 - 130cm)
Spatha - double edged, straight blade, one handed (50 - 100cm)
Viking sword - double edged guard, straight blade, one handed (70 - 100cm)
Crusader - cruciform guard, double edged, straight blade, one handed (70 - 95cm)
Templar - cruciform guard, double edged, straight blade, one handed (70 - 95cm) 
Longsword - cruciform guard, double edged, straight blade, one/two handed (100 - 130cm)
Bastard - cruciform guard, double edged, straight blade, one/two handed (80 - 110cm)
Backsword - knuckle guard, single edged, straight blade, one handed (83 - 100cm)
Claymore - large crossguard, double edged, straight blade, two handed (120 - 140cm)
Boar sword - two sets of crossguards, double edged tip, straight blade, two handed (110 - 135cm)
Broadsword - basket or knuckle guard, double edged, straight blade, one handed (90 - 110cm)
Smallsword - knuckle or crossguard, double edged, needlelike, straight blade, one handed (60 - 83cm)
Hook sword - dual wielded, bladed guard, hook tip, straight blade, one handed (60 - 100cm)
=== Heavy Weapons ===
for those who like to pack a punch
Poleaxe - axe like head atop of a long pole
Staff - heavy long pole
Greataxe - two handed axe, very large and heavy
Warhammer - like a greataxe, two handed weapon, heavy
Scythe - pole weapon with a curving single edged blade with the cutting edge on the concave side of the blade
Morningstar - spiked ball mounted on shaft of a pole, with a long spike extending straight from the top with smaller spikes around the head
Labrys - double headed axe
=== Spears ===
for those who like to have more ranged combat
Hoplite doru Spear - spear with leaf shaped tip on either end
Trident - a spear like weapon with three prongs, can be thrown as well as wielded in a melee manner
Bident - a spear weapon with two prongs on one end, can be thrown as well as wielded in a melee manner
Javelin spear - lighter and shorter than normal spear, good for throwing long distances
=== Smaller weapons ===
for those sidearms
Tomahawks - single handed axe lightweight
Trench knife - dagger like knife with knuckle duster type handle
Kunai - type of throwing knife (4 per weapons slot)
Chakram - throwing disk circular blade
Machete - a long knife shorter than a sword longer than a dagger
Flail - pole with a spiked ball attached to the end by a metal link chain
Throwing knives - they are knives that get thrown (4 per weapons slot)
Dagger - a small bladed weapon (2 per weapons slot)
=== Bows ===
for those that like to deal with danger before it’s in your face
Crossbow - type of bow in which the bow stave is fixed crosswise to a stock, the string (and subsequently the bolt) is released by a digger to shoot the arrow/bolt.
Recurve bow - a bow with limbs that curve away from the archer when unstrung.
Longbow - a tall bow that makes a fairly long reach possible, the limbs are not particularly received, the limbs are narrow and circular or D shaped in cross section