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Drac0.S01.WV wrote: SWVWC wrote: Drac0.S01.WV wrote:

Tripping on a stone is your own stupidity...

Not really. Inattentiveness isn't Stupidity. Also, I'm Christian, so, don't worry about it.

Inattentiveness on a battlefield? Yes, that is stupidity. Wearing a full set of heavy plate armor, and you trip and fall? You will never get off the ground! Even if you stay miraculously alive! You would be pinned down by your own armor! Sooner or later, an enemy would find you on the ground, and slit your throaght. All the while thinking, "What a moron..." So clumsiness is stupidity if it costs you your life. Everyone slips up from time to time, so is that occasional slip up stupidity?

On a side note: well-made plate isn't heavy enough to pin you to the ground. Mostly because the really heavy armor was developed AFTER the introduction of black powder weapons. Before that, it was merely enough metal to stop an edged weapon. It doesn't take much steel to stop your standard sword. And even when it was that heavy it was used almost exclusively from horseback.

Yes, if your life depends on your attentiveness (or lack of), and you KNOW it does. Then, with that that in minf, yes it is stupidity. And I was also refering to the Bronze age, and much earlier than steel. And even the thinnest sheet is still heavy, as we are talking about a full set, Salet helmat, greaves, gauntlets, chestplates, the fishscale armor at the joints, all this is like trying to get up with your arms pinned at your sides.