Armour Values

[athanaric]

Also, I find falcatae and kopeis underpowered. They are much more lethal than the .11 lethality would suggest - definitely more lethal than a mace, which has .165 lethality. AtB will assign lethality based on how likely a hit from a weapon is to KILL you. Disabling isn't quite killing, though it's pretty good, but there's no way to represent disabling in the RTW system, so instead it will count towards lethality, but significantly less.

Indeed, I think they should have stats more similar to maces - somewhat lower attack, but bigger lethality than other short/medium length swords.

[Zradha Pahlavan]

Why is it that basic Celtic shirtless spearmen have an armor value of 1 while similarly equipped Nubian or Garamantine spearmen have an armor value of 0?

[Randal]

It's explained earlier in the thread.

It's a game-balance decision that has no basis in reality, merely meant to make the barbarian factions more viable in the game-engine despite their lack of armoured troops.

[Zradha Pahlavan]

So why are the Nubians unbalanced like that then? Saba doesn't get any real armored troops anyway, and those Nubian guys are often what they have to rely on in Southern Egypt for a while.