Stopped reading there. Flanged Mace is an epic weapon and a great one-hander. Also, military pick loses 1 speed and 2 damage, but has the length advantage over the steel pick.
You should read the rest because the man speaks truth !
Problem about cRPG is :
It has items of 9th Century-15th Century
You can be this:
Or this at the same time:
And since you can kill a guy in milanese plate armor (15th century knight) with 9th century frankish sword or voulge in cRPG , shit happens.
In 15th century knights were using picks to pierce armor and penetrate flesh directly or hammers,poleaxes,mauls to daze and knockback the enemy knight because with swords you couldn't do anything against them.
In cRPG you can kill a guy in plate armor very easily with a wooden staff...
Arrows from horn bow penetrates armor , there are people in mamluke mail who use huscarl shield and katana etc...
Somethings are sadly inevitable my friend.
There is no way to perfectly balance this mod .
Playerbase in this mod likes to be viking or saracen or templar in jerusalem or samurai in kyoto or longbowmen in agincourt or horsearcher in steppes or a wealthy and famous knight and some people wants to be them all at the same.
Now , since i introduced the main problem i'll connect this issue with this topic's case.
Late period armors are not protecting player from early period weapons as intended.
Late period armors are expensive and thier high upkeep makes it very hard to use continously
Late period armors are very heavy which turns you into useless shining target which moves very slow and deal far less damage because of wpf penalty.
Of course they add to your survivability very much but not as much as it should .
Therefore most of the people don't use them.
Now the catchy part,
Late period weapons are op.
They are meant to kill the guy who wears that period's armor.
They deal very high damage no matter what you wear
They are fast
They are masterpieces of steel weapon era which is the last melee weapon era in history.
They are expensive and it is hard to play with them continiously because of their upkeep but because of their advantages people use those weapons.
Since it is a competetive multiplayer game , people simply abuse the foul spots of this mod.
For example i am wearing mamluke mail carrying huscarl's shield and using steel pick.
Because mamluke mail gives me sufficient protection , huscarl shield reacts same to 15th century weapons as it reacts to simple viking weapons, steel pick kills anyone easily
This is how we all fuck this game up.
Nerfing late period weapons would be idiotic because they work as intended
Buffing late period armor is a must to solve this problem.
But if devs buff late period armor it will render %90 of the current armors useless and this will make %90 of the playerbase unhappy.
TL;DR: There is no way to solve this issue, if you want to play with useless gear to satisfy your RP will go for it but don't expect much.
