User blog comment:Leolab/Ancient User Tourney, Round 5: William Vigiles (Alock) v Sir Bors (Elgb)/@comment-4661256-20160613045743/@comment-4661256-20160614152851

I messed up with the helmet info. Yeah, Bors' helmet restricts his vision more than Vigiles' does. I'll correct that.

However, Vigiles is still woefully unprepared to face his opponent. While it's a commendable feat that he killed 10 men in the defense of his town, Vigiles had the benefit of defensive fortifications and homefield morale to contribute significantly to this victory (neither of which will be present in his fight against Bors). Not only that, but it was a one-time deal. Vigiles doesn't regularly kill people. Bors' campaigns across Europe and into Turkey will have exposed him to more opponents, more environments, and more tactical and strategic situations--in other words, better experience. Also, the training of a knight and a mercenary are quite likely going to be more comprehensive than the training of a city guard. Bors has both these categories locked down. This just means he's a better warrior in general.

William wears a lot of armor and it's going to slow him down, period. He might have trained in it so he might be "used" to it but that doesn't change the fact that 120 lbs. is an insane amount of weight for someone to wear into battle. As pretty much every single other user who's voted after me has agreed, this is neither practical nor effective. In fact, WS brought up how if anything this is counterproductive, as Vigiles' armor will unbalance him. A good strike from the halberd will use all that weight against the city guard and send him falling back to the ground. You need a balance between protection and mobility and Vigiles simply isn't bringing that to this fight.