DevDiary 9 New Equipment - Battle-Modders/mod-reforged GitHub Wiki

Dev Diary #9 - 10-Sep-2024
LordMidas

• Weapons
• Armors
• Helmets

We have added several new weapons, some of which come with brand new skills and others with a unique combination of existing vanilla skills. With these we create new niches and fill vacant ones - giving the player more options for builds as well as providing visual variety. Several of these new weapons also have named variants and we plan to add more.

Icon	Name	Description
	Two-Handed Falchion	An early to mid-game Sword/Cleaver hybrid that can Cleave, Decapitate and Riposte.
	Kriegsmesser	A top tier Sword/Cleaver hybrid that can Cleave, Decapitate and Riposte.
	Battle Axe	A two-handed axe that can Chop, Split Man and Smash Shield.
	Poleaxe	An expensive but effective weapon that has the Hew, Strike and Impale skills allowing one to fight effectively at short and long melee range.
	Swordstaff	A versatile Spear/Sword hybrid that has Overhead Strike, Prong and Spearwall.
	Poleflail	A flail that can be used to Flail and Lash up to 2 tiles away. It noticeably has 5 AP attacks instead of 6.
	Reinforced Wooden Poleflail	An early game, and weaker, variant of the Poleflail.
	Halberd	A lategame Polearm/Axe/Hammer hybrid that can Impale, Sunder and Destroy Armor.
	Voulge	A deadly pole-type cleaver that can Cleave and Gouge.
	Estoc	A two-handed fencing sword with very high armor penetration.
	Great Khopesh	Used by Necrosavant Lords, this long two-handed blade can deal deep cuts and devastating blows.

Most of the new armors we have added provide high quality options for high durability to fatigue ratio, albeit come at a high price. This also helps smooth out the armor quality progression in the game and provides new options for outfitting your company in the mid to late game. As most of these are high quality items, you will usually find them only in shops or equipped by higher tier enemies.

Icon	Name	Description
	Breastplate	A quality breastplate and fauld over a simple gambeson offering strong protection.
	Breastplate Armor	A quality breastplate and fauld over mail and aketon offers excellent protection and coverage, if you have the crowns to afford it.
	Breastplate Harness	An exquisite breastplate with fauld, spaulders, rerebraces, vambraces and ailette. Offers phenomenal protection for the wealthiest of warriors.
	Brigandine Shirt	A cloth shirt with embedded, riveted and overlapping plates worn over linen and aketon. It provides good protection with minimal mobility loss.
	Brigandine Armor	A cloth shirt with embedded, riveted and overlapping plates worn over a long mail shirt. It provides great protection with only moderate mobility loss.
	Brigandine Harness	A brigandine shirt over mail with spaulders and splinted vambaces providing excellent protection with only moderate mobility loss.
	Reinforced Footman Armor	This heavy armor of mail and gambeson has been reinforced with scale plates and a plate spaulder.
	Foreign Plate Harness	An exceptional plate harness from a foreign land, offering better mobility than local designs. Some of the most expensive armor crowns can buy.
	Kastenbrust Plate Harness	A full set of plate armor with a box shaped cuirass over a mail hauberk. Some of the most expensive armor crowns can buy.
	Heavy Plate Harness	This heavy plate harness offers near-unbeatable protection with some loss of mobility. Some of the most expensive armor crowns can buy.

We have added many new helmets, some of these are early-mid game whereas others are much higher quality and provide options for lategame companies. This not only increases visual variety but also grants the player many more new options for outfitting their company at all stages of the game. We also make use of these new helmets to better outfit the enemies you will face, and this ties into the player's gear progression from loot.

Icon	Name	Description
	Closed Bascinet	A well-made closed bascinet offering excellent protection.
	Conical Billed Helmet	A helmet of foreign styling, the billed visor covers more of the face with less overall metal.
	Padded Conical Billed Helmet	A helmet of foreign styling over aketon padding, the billed visor covers more of the face with less overall metal.
	Half Closed Sallet	A finely crafted half-closed sallet. Provides excellent defense with some vision loss.
	Half Closed Sallet with Mail	A finely crafted half-closed sallet over a mail coif. Provides excellent protection.
	Half Closed Sallet with Bevor	A finely crafted half-closed sallet helmet paired with an equally finely crafted bevor. An expensive piece only seen on the most wealthy.
	Scale Helmet	A helmet made of overlapping iron scales. Provides mediocre protection when compared to the weight.
	Padded Scale Helmet	A helmet made of overlapping iron scales over an aketon cap. Provides mediocre protection when compared to the weight.
	Sallet Helmet	A simple, well-made sallet helmet offering good protection. The vanilla sallet helmet has been reworked and renamed to "Open Faced Sallet Helmet".
	Padded Sallet Helmet	A well-made sallet helmet over aketon padding. Offers great protection without much weight.
	Sallet Helmet with Mail	A well-made sallet helmet over a mail coif. Provides great overall protection for any soldier.
	Sallet Helmet with Bevor	A well-made sallet helmet paired with a finely crafted bevor. An expensive piece offering excellent protection.
	Skull Cap	A simple helmet made out of a single piece of iron that provides strong protection, albiet with lackluster coverage.
	Padded Skull Cap	A skull cap over aketon padding that provides strong protection, albiet with lackluster coverage.
	Skull Cap with Mail	A skull cap over mail providing strong overall protection.
	Skull Cap with Rondels	A skull cap with rondels to protect the sides of the head.
	Padded Skull Cap with Rondels	A skull cap with rondels overlaying a padded aketon cap.
	Visored Bascinet	A large bascinet with a hinged visor allowing for better breathing and vision outside of battle.
	Snubnose Bascinet with Mail	This bascinet with snubnose visor provides phenomenal defense and coverage. Some of the best protection crowns can buy.
	Hounskull Bascinet with Mail	This bascinet with hounskull visor provides phenomenal defense and coverage. Some of the best protection crowns can buy.
	Great Helm	A heavy, fully enclosed helm that extremely hinders vision but makes up for it with unparalleled protection.