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Howdy, New Readers! Thanks for reading Exiern!
Written by Scott T. Hicken with art by Antipus, the comic updates Mondays. Please check out the Archive to enjoy the earlier adventures of Typh and Peonie!
Exiern contains mature themes and is best for readers 18+.
If you are worried about being hit, either wear a full body turtle suit (made out of twelve-gauge plate steel), or don’t become a fighter!
A successful fighter is one who is able to move around easily, and thus avoid a lot of hits, why do you think Conan was often only wearing a furry loincloth? o_O
No, a successful warrior is one that takes the time to put on the proper armor. Warriors in real life wore armor, because leaving your vitals exposed is asking for trouble.
A successful warrior was one who was still living at the end of battle, many a fully armoured knight ended up ‘turtled’, and dead, because what they were wearing made them nearly unmanoeuvrable when not mounted
Armor needs to cover the areas that when hit will kill or disable the person.
A good example was the American Bombers sent over Germany in WWII. Mounting losses led to an order to beef up the protection on the planes. The trouble was that covering the whole plane would make it to heavy to fly. A bright engineer went out to study the damage seen in returning planes. He mapped every part of the planes that got shot up on a diagram of the bomber schematics.
The bright idea was to armor every part of the plane that did NOT show up on the diagram. The idea was the planes that got hit in those missing areas never made it back home to be mapped into the study.
Actually, the bomber project was British, and the original proposal was to armor the areas that had taken the most hits, the assumption being that those were the areas most likely to be hit.
(I believe that the study was of the Lancaster.)
Then it occurred to some bright fellow that these were the bombers that had COME BACK…
Wouldn’t the appropriate armor (or lack of it) depend on the situation? I’m no expert, however some examples would be:
Scouting: optimize for silence and speed.
Individual combat: perhaps speed and agility.
Front ranks: heavy armor, especially in front.
She still sells impractical armor i see.
Which one is Anne, and which one Andy? o_O
Anyone wearing that armor would not last long in a real fight. I shutter to think of being hit in the breast wearing that golden one in panel 2.
I think we all know what sort of “combat” Emse designs her “armor” for.
She’s the one who originally had Typh try on the “magic girl” gear a while back, right?
If you are worried about being hit, either wear a full body turtle suit (made out of twelve-gauge plate steel), or don’t become a fighter!
A successful fighter is one who is able to move around easily, and thus avoid a lot of hits, why do you think Conan was often only wearing a furry loincloth? o_O
Wait: what is this shitty art style?
@Guesticus:
No, a successful warrior is one that takes the time to put on the proper armor. Warriors in real life wore armor, because leaving your vitals exposed is asking for trouble.
A successful warrior was one who was still living at the end of battle, many a fully armoured knight ended up ‘turtled’, and dead, because what they were wearing made them nearly unmanoeuvrable when not mounted
Armor needs to cover the areas that when hit will kill or disable the person.
A good example was the American Bombers sent over Germany in WWII. Mounting losses led to an order to beef up the protection on the planes. The trouble was that covering the whole plane would make it to heavy to fly. A bright engineer went out to study the damage seen in returning planes. He mapped every part of the planes that got shot up on a diagram of the bomber schematics.
The bright idea was to armor every part of the plane that did NOT show up on the diagram. The idea was the planes that got hit in those missing areas never made it back home to be mapped into the study.
Actually, the bomber project was British, and the original proposal was to armor the areas that had taken the most hits, the assumption being that those were the areas most likely to be hit.
(I believe that the study was of the Lancaster.)
Then it occurred to some bright fellow that these were the bombers that had COME BACK…
@Boaty
I think the art is fine. It gets the point across without too much extraneous detail. That’s the essence of comic art.
Wouldn’t the appropriate armor (or lack of it) depend on the situation? I’m no expert, however some examples would be:
Scouting: optimize for silence and speed.
Individual combat: perhaps speed and agility.
Front ranks: heavy armor, especially in front.