These things fit in the conan universe on a certain level, yes, but not something every player wants to show off or meets the functional aspirations of our other speakers here. Or the Darfari light armor, that is literally just a loincloth, or the stygian archer medium armor that has backless leggings. Heavy armor that has my character running around showing off his ■■■ cheeks. Lets take the hyperborean slaver as an example. Conan is a hyper-sexualized universe to be sure, but that doesn’t mean I want to walk around in armor that is less functional and more fetish. I don’t think anyone here is objecting to showing skin, more the way its done. It looks like you either misunderstand the argument or are misrepresenting it to make yourself feel better. I think Funcom nailed it on most of the armors I have seen. You also have the writing of R.E.H., which does make note of how bare many are while fighting. Now put this in the Hyborian Age, a fictional prehistoric period with races of differing technical levels meeting, and you get many other considerations that add on here. Thus lacking armor, flexibility, and raw agility from being as unencumbered as possible was your best bet, and that comes with being bare.

So in short, armor sucked, and posed more of a risk than was worth it for those engaged in non formation melee. Easy to wear proto scale and plate a third your body weight, when a mate is covering your vulnerable side with a shield and all you have to do is go forward with a pike. What was left were ‘precautionary’ armor pieces, meant to protect major blood vessels at the neck, under the armpits, and inner groin (center groin if you were lucky), or classic ‘kidney belt’, and even these were often not effective enough to justify wearing in non formation melee.

You had chafing, human fleas, material rot, all leading back to the infection issue as well. I think there is some misunderstanding of armor types and fighting styles from stone age and early metal work periods, being put under a microscope of modern values and interpretation here.Ī lot of individual fighting was done nude and near nude, because armor bits do go into wounds, and make otherwise survivable wounds lethal when you have no effective medical disciplines.įlexible, and breathable armor, able to withstand fighting long enough to be worth it, was not in many cultures capability to do economically.

Conan exiles sexy armor