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How a blow is settled in battle. So far this page covers one part of it: which armour protects the head.
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This page will grow into the whole of how a blow is settled. For now it covers one part of it, the one our tests have answered: what stands between a blow and the head.
Armour at the head
A blow that lands still has to get through the protectionprotection · What stands between a unit and a blow, from its armour plus any natural protection of its own. The defender adds a DRN to it, and a hit wounds only when the damage total is higher, so a tie does nothing. Full article in front of it, and that depends on where it lands. Armour comes in separate pieces, and each piece lists a value for each part of the body it covers. A helm lists one for the head. A hauberk or a breastplate lists values for the body, the arms and the legs, and usually nothing for the head.
On a unit with no protection of its own, a helm worn over such body armour decides the head by itself: the body armour adds nothing there. Measured · n=87
How we know
- Tier
- Measured
- Source
- Our tests
- Method
- One battle: every head hit on a test dummy wearing a full helmet over a chain hauberk, armour-defeating hits excluded, read from the debug log.
- Sample
- n=87
- Game version tested
- 6.37 · current
- Tests
- T-0001
- Evidence
- Research article
- Last checked
Later tests repeated the check with other helms over other body armours, and the rule held every time. Measured · n=12,083
How we know
- Tier
- Measured
- Source
- Our tests
- Method
- n counts head hits on test defenders wearing a helm over body armour with no head value, in six captures with helm values from 3 to 25; each was compared with the helm's listed value.
- Sample
- n=12,083
- Game version tested
- 6.37 · current
- Evidence
- Research article
- Last checked
Every one of those units had no natural protection. How natural protection and a helm combine at the head is a separate question, and this page says nothing about it yet.
Terms on this page
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- protection
- What stands between a unit and a blow, from its armour plus any natural protection of its own. The defender adds a DRN to it, and a hit wounds only when the damage total is higher, so a tie does nothing. · Full article · back to text
Last updated 2026-09-24 by JakeVerified for 6.37 (current)