Basic Torso Armor
This is the basic armor that covers the body including plate and chain construction as well as leather. (Numbers in parenthesis show what the armor adds to your To-hit, as always the higher the better)
Barding - The defense for the horse, sometimes referring to the armor and sometimes referring to the cloth decoration that served to identify the owner. Of course centaurs have no owners, so we'll be referring to the armor. It's basically just armor that protects the flank and withers of the horse. See the red part on the picture? That's the barding.
Some leather barding - The Equine Armory
Some studded barding - The Equine Armory
Breastplates - Breastplates are a solid piece of armor, made of metal or leather, attached to one's chest by means of straps or hinges. Breastplates made for militiamen were generally made to be as light as possible without sacrificing strength, while horsemen want their breastplates heavier to prevent damage from spears and lances. The breastplates most technical in their design are jousting plates which are modified with a peaked breast to help deflect a lance blow to the side.
A bronze breastplate - Available at Eridanos Bridge Armorers, Bent Sword Armor and Greaves
A leather breastplate - Available at Longrik's Leather Armor, Saoul the Armorer, Drakor's Forge and Leatherworks
A bronze bodice-armor - Available at Norak's Armory
Chain Armor - The crafting of chain mail is an expensive, laborious process, each link having to be cut from a large block of metal and hammered into shape. In this process, long strips of metal are hammered out, twisted around a rod, then cut to equal-sized links. The ends of the links would then be flattened out and pierced and then hooked together into a garment, the link ends being riveted together. Chain mail offers excellent protection against cutting blows and is lighter than solid plate armor, but is also more easily pierced during combat. The chain shirts only protect the torso and arms, leaving the legs exposed, sometimes they will rise up to protect the neck and head as well as the torso. The chain hauberk added leg protection to the shirt thusly making it a full body armor and therefore better protection.
A chain shirt - Available at Eridanos Bridge Armorers, Bent Sword Armor and Greaves
A scoop-necked silvery chain shirt - Available at Drakor's Forge and Leatherworks
A chain hauberk - Available at Bent Sword Armor and Greaves (pictured)
A mail shirt - Audric's Armory
An iron chain hauberk - Kjetil's Weapons and Armor
Leather Armor - Leather armor ranges from a soft leather jerkin to cuirbouill, leather which is boiled in oil, which then dries very rigidly. Some forms of cloth armor are also surprisingly effective, but tend to reduce rather than stop damage. Some leather armor is padded with cloth, which will cushion smashing blows, but while padded leather tends to have this cushioning effect, some weapons can readily chop through or puncture it. along with padding the leather may also be studded with metal and sometimes even bone to deflect weapon blows, this type of armor also refers to leather armor with actual metal rings sewn into it.
Some light leather/ - Available at Eridanos Bridge Armorers, Bent Sword Armor and Greaves, Longrik's Leather Armor, Saoul the Armorer, The Equine Armory
Some torn light leather// - Can be acquired from Cutthroats, Bandits, Brigands, and Zombies
Some studded leather - Available at Eridanos Bridge Armorers, Bent Sword Armor and Greaves, Longrik's Leather Armor, Saoul the Armorer, The Equine Armory
Some brass-studded leather - Available at Norak's Armory
Ring Mail - Ringmail is a suit of loose ring armor sewn into leather or linked together as a loose chainmail, usually worn over a leather jerkin. Ringmail may be the best overall armor in terms of its weight as compared to the overall amount of protection it affords. Ringmail absorbs most crushing blows very well, but is at a disadvantage versus long, thin bladed weapons as they can easily find their way between the large rings. It's basically a loose chain mail armor in most respects, offering less protection but more easily made and therefore cheaper to buy, not to mention being much lighter.
Some ringmail - Available at Eridanos Bridge Armorers, Bent Sword Armor and Greaves, Saoul the Armorer
Some iron ringmail - Kjetil's Weapons and Armor
Armor Accessories
These are the accessories that may be worn with the above armor for additional protection, often attacked by buckles and straps to hinges or straps on the main suit of armor, these to help protect you from attack. (Again the numbers in parenthesis show what the armor adds to your To-hit, and as always the higher the better)
Coifs - A hood of chain mail, often incorporating a cover for the neck as well. While coifs are sometimes worn alone, they are usually worn under a helmet as a further buffer against blows; unfortunately, we can't do that in the game.
A silvery chain coif - Available at Drakor's Forge and Leatherworks
A mail coif - Audric's Armory
Gauntlets - Gauntlets are basically armored gloves that have a stiff cuff attached to plates which overlapped each other from the knuckles back to the wrist. The knuckles are protected by a raised plate which itself attaches to the smaller finger plates. The finger plates numbered from four on the pinkie to six on the middle finger, a bit larger for the giants. The thumb has similar protection but is only connected to the cuff by a leaf plate to allow for freedom of movement. The metal portion of the gauntlet is attached to a leather glove inside it to make them more comfortable to wear.
Some leather gauntlets (+1) - Available at Longrik's Leather Armor, Saoul the Armorer, The Equine Armory
Greaves - Armor accessories for the legs and arms, particularly the shins and forearms. Greaves cover and protected the shinbone and forearm from swords and pikes and were especially helpful to guard against getting kicked in the shin after a failed pick up line. Originally constructed of leather, chain mail and bronze greaves became common with plate mail greaves replacing them as technology advanced.
Some leather arm greaves - Available at Eridanos Bridge Armorers, Bent Sword Armor and Greaves, Longrik's Leather Armor, Saoul the Armorer, The Equine Armory
Some leather leg greaves - Available at Eridanos Bridge Armorers, Bent Sword Armor and Greaves, Longrik's Leather Armor, Saoul the Armorer
Some bronze arm greaves - Available at Bent Sword Armor and Greaves
Some bronze leg greaves - Available at Bent Sword Armor and Greaves
Some iron arm greaves - Available at Norak's Armory
Some iron leg greaves - Available at Norak's Armory
Some damaged arm greaves - Can be acquired from Cutthroats, and Rowdies
Some damaged leg greaves - Can be acquired from Rowdies
Helms - Helms are head protection that come in many shapes and sizes as well as designs and materials. Some helms like armets have movable face and cheek pieces that allow the wearer to close the helmet, thus fully protecting the head from blows, while others are simply pieces of leather sewn together and molded to fit a persons head, not very effective but better than nothing. Some helms can be simply metal hats that sit upon the head, often held on with a strap while others cover the head and neck, sometimes visored to help protect the face or just open leaving the face unprotected.
A leather helmet/ - Available at Eridanos Bridge Armorers, Bent Sword Armor and Greaves
A leather helm// - Available at Longrik's Leather Armor, Saoul the Armorer, The Equine Armory
A Corinthian bronze helm - Available at Eridanos Bridge Armorers
A bronze helmet - Available at Bent Sword Armor and Greaves
A great helm - Available at Saoul the Armorer
An iron great helm- Available at Bent Sword Armor and Greaves
A plumed feather helm - Available at Drakor's Forge and Leatherworks
A peaked helm - Available at Audric's Armory
A horned iron helm - Available at Kjetil's Weapons and Armor
A white-plumed copper helm - Available at Norak's Armory
A red-plumed bronze helm - Available at Norak's Armory
Vambraces - Vambraces are basically just fancy arm greaves, though vambraces generally are constructed of a sturdier armor construction such as plate mail. Vambraces are rigid and either a solid tube fastened over the arm, or hinged over the outside of the arm and fastened on the inside by straps or hooks. Leg guards are exactly like vambraces except, well … you wear them on your legs. Bands were forearm guards first worn by archers to protect them from the snap of the bowstring. In time, many other combatants wore bands of leather or metal to help protect their arms or legs from blows.
Some bronze vambraces - Available at Eridanos Bridge Armorers
Some bronze leg guards - Available at Eridanos Bridge Armorers
Some tasseled leg bands - Available at Drakor's Forge and Leatherworks
Some tasseled arm bands - Available at Drakor's Forge and Leatherworks
Shields
Shields are those things we're holding while fighting vile beasts (sorry two handers and archers), you know those things we don't swing at them? Yeah the other one that we block stuff with, there you go, you got it now. (The numbers in parenthesis show what the shield adds to your To-hit when holding it in your left hand, and as always the higher the better)
Buckler - The buckler is a small shield that is usually not much wider than the fist holding it (no more than 2 feet in diameter) and often round although some were made in other shapes. The buckler is used primarily to parry an opponent's attack rather than cover the wielder's body. Bucklers proved to be very valuable to archers as they could usually be worn on the arm leaving the hand free to nock and fire arrows while they could simply shield themselves with their arm if ever attacked and parry weapons with the small shield attached there. Some bucklers had spikes set into the center to allow for it to double as a formidable weapon as well as for protection.
A buckler - Available at Bent Sword Armor and Greaves
Hoplon - A large oval shield of laminated wood or metal, sometimes covered with leather, and worn on the forearm similar to a buckler except this shield is large enough to cover its carrier from shoulder to knee. Generally used by foot soldiers rather than archers and mounted calvary in the militia, this shield offers some of the best protection possible as it covers and protects so much of the body. The term "hoplite" was derived from this piece of armor and came to refer to any heavily armed infantry soldier of ancient Greece.
A bronze hoplon - Available at Bent Sword Armor and Greaves
A Gorgon's-head hoplon - Available at Norak's Armory
Shield - The term shield refers to most any protective device usually held in the hand to block or parry blows and attacks. They come in many different shapes and sizes as well as designs and materials. If not for shields there would probably have been little or no heraldic devices for they could not engrave them and bear them proudly upon them if they didn't exist. Shields can be simple and round shaped, made from layers of wood pieced together, or they can be giant complex full-body shields that would be better termed a wall than a shield.
A plain wooden shield - Can be acquired from Graveyard Skeletons
A small shield - Available at Eridanos Bridge Armorers, Saoul the Armorer, The Equine Armory
A large shield - Available at Eridanos Bridge Armorers, Saoul the Armorer, The Equine Armory
A round shield - Audric's Armory