Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-26149161-20160321154543/@comment-99.126.157.129-20160328022645

"We make good armour and keen swords, but we cannot again make mail or blade to match those that were made before the dragon came." -Gloin at the Rivendell council in the fellowship.

If the Dwarves of Erebor were not forging mail like they used to, what were they making? Instead of blades, they must have made axes/hammers, and instead of mail, they might be making plate armour!

However, dwarf mail should be a seperate thing from dwarf plates, but you would only be able to craft dwarf mail on an ancient dwarven crafting table found in ruined mines. You would make dwarven steel rings like you do with gold/silver/mithril, and craft them into the armour as you would in a normal armour recipie. The same holds true for all other factions' mail, it should be with iron or faction specific rings in an armour recepie.

If plate armour and mail armour are made into two separate things, plate armour should block more damage from heavy weapons like hammers and axes, while chainmail should offer more projectile and blade protection.

That is all.