Ring mail hauberk vs. scale mail cuirass?

[Reverend Zombie]

My dictionary defines hauberk as "tunic of chain mail armor." Merriam-Webster's Tenth Ed. Collegiate Dictionary.

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[Tuidjy]

In the SoCA group I hang out with, we use 'hauberk' for any flexible sleeveless
armour, and 'cuirass' for stiff armours which cover either the chest, or the
chest and the back.

I should add that 'ringmail', at least in the sense we use it, is not
chainmail. It is made by sewing, or somehow attaching, relatively big metal
rings on some base (usually soft leather). Chainmail is made by combining
smaller rings, which end up holding onto each other.

As for cuirasses, we make them from stiff materials - metal, boiled leather,
or, sacrilegious as it may be, pLastic. Attaching scales on top of that would
be pointless.

As far as I am concerned, a 'scale hauberk' would be a sleeveless, soft leather
shirt with sewed-on scales. A scale cuirace would be the single scale of a large
reptile fitted with straps, so that it can be used as a breastplate.

[tinkthank]

Hey thanks.
I meant that these two items *in dom2* are identical in statistics (def, enc, prot) -- if they cost different resources, that is good.

[Edi]

See the Weapons and Armor reference material I wrote. It has the rescosts for the different armors and several weapons as well, you can get it from Arryn's site.

Edi