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5 comments:
If you use titanium instead of steel, you can shave off 45 percent of the weight. Furthermore, 6Al/6V/2Sn titanium is 3.9 times stronger than stainless steel.
Of course, if you are already using mithril...
Ben,
The idea is to have a modicum of historical accuracy. Titanium behaves very differently from stainless steel links.
There's a school of thought that Mithril -is- titanium btw.
There's a school of thought that Mithril -is- titanium btw.
Yep, fascinating, isn't it?
Titanium behaves very differently from stainless steel links.
I would imagine. The material flexes a lot more. Not necessarily a desired trait for amor :-)
There's a study somewhere which discovered that samurai steel-scale armor is stronger (and lighter) than chain mail.
Some scuba divers use chain mail suits for interacting with sharks. I think they start at US$10,000 per suit.
Have fun!
I didn't know about the flex of titanium but I guess that would make sense. The rings must have some rigidity in them or the force would transmit to the person wearing the armor.
I reserve comment about samurai armor though - cross-cultural weapons/armor technology comparisons tend to get mired in cultural biases.
IT Warriors!
IT Brave
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