Verdish Independence Law Reform

### **Adopting current Chapter Policies into Standard a Law Document**

Goes without saying, we’ve already voted on these policies and therefore we will come up with a rule book that reflects them! They can be most easily summed up on this page here.

## **New Policies**

### **Armor Tier System**

There are 3 tiers of armor: **Leather**, **Chain**, and **Plate**. These tiers are used to quantify the level of defense a piece of armor provides.

1. **Leather** offers protection in the same standard as current Dagorhir Armor laws.
2. **Chain** encompasses all the power of leather armor and *additionally*:
	1. Chain armor **reduces** incoming red damage to blue damage
	2. Chain armor **reduces** incoming double-green to blue damage
3. **Plate** encompasses all the power of leather armor and *additionally*:
	1. Plate armor is **immune** to yellow damage
	2. Plate armor **reduces** incoming red damage to blue damage
	3. Plate armor **reduces** incoming double green to blue damage
	4. Plate armor can **'block'** 2 blue attacks instead of the current 1

Where **helmets** are concerned, all tiers of armor offer the same level of protection. *(I cannot think of a functional way to do this without potentially over-complicating projectiles)*

### **Armor Classification System**

However, not all armor is made up of a singular armor material and therefore is further identified into three categories: **Single-Make**, **Hybrid**, and **Ambiguous**.

1. **Single-Make** refers to armor that is made up entirely of one type of material. These materials are Leather, Chain, or Plate.
2. **Hybrid** refers to armor that has distinct and clear areas that are made up of different materials to cover larger sub-areas within a target-zone.
	1. Armors can only maintain hybrid status if differing armor materials are clearly defined and cover one of the sub-areas within a target-zone.
		1. *For example*: The **forearms** would be considered a sub-area of the larger target-zone of **Arm.**
	2. Areas with differentiating materials must have significant material present to warrant corresponding tier protection.
		1. *For example:* If a chain-plate hybrid shirt wishes to utilize the plate-tier levels of protection, the plates present must be large enough to cover one of the sub-areas within a zone *(Such as the buttocks of the torso zone)*
3. **Ambiguous** refers to armors that either have multiple materials clustered together, or combinations of materials accenting one another in a way where there is no obvious or armor-worthy majority. If armor does not easily fit into the categories of **Single-Make** or **Hybrid**, they are **automatically** considered Ambiguous.
	1. Ambiguous armor only offers tier-protection of the **weakest** material present.
	2. Certain styles of armor are ALWAYS considered Ambiguous:
		1. Brigandine
		2. Small, non-overlapping plates 'tags' weaved into a chain mesh
			1. If the 'tags' are leather, the armor is immediately classified as leather-tier.

#### **Miscellaneous**

1. If multiple items of armor are worn on top of one another, the armor that is visible or worn on top is the armor that will dictate the tier-protection.
	1. *For example*, wearing a leather pauldron over a fully-sleeved chainmail shirt will warrant leather armor-level protection for the pauldron area, even though there is actually chain underneath. *(Because it is not immediately clear in battle)*
2. If any part of the armor zone has been broken, then the whole zone is nullified. Regardless of differentiating tiers. (Torso, arms, legs)
	1. *For example*: A fighter is wearing a hybrid plate-chain torso. He then takes blue damage to the chainmail portion, this also ‘breaks’ the plate portion of that zone, even though plate-tier armor would offer an additional point of defense in other circumstances.

### **Armor Qualifications**

In order for armor to qualify as either Plate, Chain, or Leather it must meet the following standards:

#### **Plate**

Plate armor is defined as armor made out of solid metal pieces that encompass one or more of the following properties:

1. Solid and full spanning sections. Meaning pieces that cover sub-areas within a target zone (Such as the pectorals, the abdomen, the shoulders, etc)
	* These can however be connected by sections of chain. However if the chain portions exceed 1” the armor becomes subject to being classified as chain-tier through the Ambiguous Armor standards.
2. Splint styled bands used to encompass a limb when enclosed. With no gap larger than 3/4"
3. Plates that overlap consistently (For example lamellar)

#### **Chain**

Chain armor is defined as armor made up of interlocking metal rings. Armors that utilize metal 'tags' woven into a chain mesh are also considered chain.

#### **Leather**

Leather armor must first be made of acceptable thickness according to Verdish standards. Leather armor pieces however must conform the the following standards:

* Solid and full spanning sections. Meaning pieces that cover sub-areas within a target zone (Such as the pectorals, the abdomen, the shoulders, etc)
	+ These can however be connected by sections of chain. However it is likely that the armor will always be classified as leather.