User blog comment:Swg66/Ancient User Warrior tournament: Round 5 Lt.Chard vs. Facetheslayer/@comment-2222810-20110531142440

I'm going to go with my self for several reasons. 1) Lorica plumata is in my opinion a superior armor. It's chainmail meets lammelar. The scales are attached to the chainmail, this gives it the strength's of both chain mail and lammellar and reduces both there weaknesses. The scales reduce blunt for damage and the mail stops stabs. 2. While the Tomahawk can crush skulls there are two things about it that fall short. For one it's reach is very short compared to the Broadsword, and second I'm wearing a helemt and FTS has has no head protection, she could throw it but then she's lost her weapon and there no guarantee it will even get a hit. If you've ever thrown axe you know you have to be a certain distance away other wise it would land blade first. It's all about the number rotations,  being to close or to far will cause a miss. It's great againt stationary targets but has less reliablity against on that's moving ones . 3. While she may be nimble her Iron curiass is going to slow her down and reduce her mobility reduceing or even nulliftying this as a a major advantage. Lorica plumata is highly flexable and give'sthe wearer a great advantage, the strengths of both mail and lammelar but none of the weaknesses, the reason you don't see it used more in history is it was insanly expensive. The Iron curiass would be the only issue here but her head and legs are highly vulnaraable, and it's an iron curiass so it wouldn't be as tough as steel, it should actully be pretty brittle.