Board Thread:General Mod Discussion/@comment-27506967-20160823151753/@comment-5672886-20160823225527

AlteOgre wrote: Hardiness is a qualification of warrior traits, just like vigour, resilience, endurance and stamina. It says nothing about armour.

Note that Gondor and it's TA fiefdoms were inhabited by edain in the SA before the Numenoreans came to rule it. I reckon many of the proud fiefdom specialist military were drafted from the ranks of the offspring of these original inhabitants. There is much reason to assume that these regiments of fiefdom militia would not have been equipped with the best armour. A trait system would come in handy to distinguish between the characteristics of the peoples of sub-factions/fiefdoms within a faction. ;) Indeed, and as far as I remember not much was described about the armours of the fiefdom soldiers, certainly not the quality/protectiveness of their armour. For a fiefdom, leather armour would seem most suitable, given that from a historical perspective - usually (and do note I say usually, given it was not always the case) only the main professional army of a nation would be extremely well-equipped, compared to whatever "militia" and troops the fiefdoms could provide, in this case being the regular Gondorian soldiers in their plate armours.