Timeline for How do I create armor for a physically weak species?
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| Sep 6, 2019 at 14:01 | comment | added | Julian Egner | as Agent_L and anaximander wrote, they need to be fast. Weak, light bones have a reason. While Birds are already meantioned, there is another Species that has light bones: Rabbits. They hide, sneak, run away and jump away, but seldom fight. If they fight, they attack fast, give a bite and run away. Some brave ones take attacks on humans if they are on their territory. So I think that your Lokk would not take a slowing armor, but fight fast as their physics are | |
| Sep 6, 2019 at 11:03 | answer | added | dixhom | timeline score: 0 | |
| Sep 5, 2019 at 23:29 | comment | added | John | The physical shape of the creatures and what bones are weak against blunt force trauma means are important, allbone is weak against blunt force trauma some way. | |
| Sep 5, 2019 at 15:27 | answer | added | David Hambling | timeline score: 0 | |
| Feb 11, 2017 at 1:53 | answer | added | Durakken | timeline score: 1 | |
| Feb 11, 2017 at 0:48 | answer | added | The_CIA | timeline score: 1 | |
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| Dec 29, 2016 at 16:57 | answer | added | Tony Ennis | timeline score: 1 | |
| Dec 29, 2016 at 16:51 | comment | added | Tony Ennis | Why do the Lokk want to go to war? Motivations matter. | |
| Dec 29, 2016 at 9:17 | comment | added | anaximander | To continue the line @Agent_L started, birds have weak bones, so look how they fight or hunt. Some pick ground creatures that can't retaliate, some use ambush, and some try to split lone prey out of a flock of birds. Generally, though, they all have one thing in common: they rarely get into a drawn-out fight. They hit hard and kill fast, and if they don't make the kill, they pull back, and maybe go for a fresh attack. Your best bet here is guerilla tactics: hit-and-fade harassment, ambush, traps, and ranged weaponry. | |
| Dec 28, 2016 at 19:51 | answer | added | bobthefunny | timeline score: 2 | |
| Dec 28, 2016 at 16:24 | comment | added | Agent_L | If they have such weak bones, there must be a very good evolutionary reason behind it, eg those bones are light because Lokk are very agile and fast, maybe even can fly (birds have pneumatic bones). For such species, armor would be counter intuitive, they'd rather seek to widen speed advantage they already have. | |
| Dec 28, 2016 at 9:42 | answer | added | David | timeline score: 2 | |
| Dec 28, 2016 at 8:19 | comment | added | xDaizu | IANAW but with weak bones they have it tough. I think their best bets would be crossbows (or firearms if available), valyrian fire granades (if there's an equivalent) and traps; opposed to delivering strikes with a pierce or blunt melee weapon. I'm basing this on the fact that until now they've been killed by the dozen and I don't think an armor slowering them down is gonna really help... unless they are +3 DEX armors, of course. | |
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| Dec 28, 2016 at 6:26 | answer | added | Robyn | timeline score: 2 | |
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| Dec 27, 2016 at 22:35 | answer | added | Alex H. | timeline score: 4 | |
| Dec 27, 2016 at 22:26 | answer | added | rangerike1363 | timeline score: 2 | |
| Dec 27, 2016 at 21:42 | answer | added | cybernard | timeline score: 2 | |
| Dec 27, 2016 at 21:42 | answer | added | pluckedkiwi | timeline score: 2 | |
| Dec 27, 2016 at 20:51 | comment | added | Erin Thursby | If you have a weakness, you adopt different tactics. This race will have workarounds for the head to head stuff (mobile defenses, lightweight paper armor) but please don't forget that there are DISADVANTAGES to being heavily armored. Tripwires, getting your enemy down, traps, strike and fade. They'll learn to fight smarter and use those things to advantage. | |
| Dec 27, 2016 at 20:37 | comment | added | Gallifreyan | Unless you can work around Newton's 3rd Law (every action has an equal and opposite reaction), armour isn't going to do much good, even if you can distribute the impact shock; maybe by using a non-Newtonian fluid, for which resistance depends upon impact speed). May I suggest movable cover platforms? They could levitate, and move upon request. | |
| Dec 27, 2016 at 20:15 | comment | added | cybernard | They marched head long into a war they weren't prepared to fight. By the time they learn new tactics like ambushes, and traps too many of your people will already have died. Unless you vastly out number them, and have crews secretly placing traps all the time you probably won't catch up in time. It too late for a trojan horse, you will never complete it in time. You need to cause a stalemate where no one is actually fighting so you can train and equip your people. | |
| Dec 27, 2016 at 19:27 | answer | added | WRX | timeline score: 5 | |
| Dec 27, 2016 at 19:01 | comment | added | Xandar The Zenon | Well. I guess now your story has one sapient species now. | |
| Dec 27, 2016 at 17:49 | comment | added | Aify | Tl;Dr is that your Lokk emperor needs to learn better battle strategies or the war will be over very quickly. | |
| Dec 27, 2016 at 17:47 | comment | added | Aify | The correct answer for this question is: "You don't". A physically weak species against a stronger species in Medieval Europe means you need speed, range, accuracy, traps, ambushes, and a lot more other sneaky stuff to win. There is no universe where the Lokk go into a head on fight with the Lotl and the Lokk come out with a win - the Lotl will win every time. If your armour can tank one hit, then the Lotl will just hit you twice. If it can tank 2 hits, he'll hit 3 times in the same spot. Each armour also has weak points as well - the joints can be targeted, thinner areas can be targeted, etc | |
| Dec 27, 2016 at 17:37 | answer | added | XaolingBao | timeline score: 3 | |
| Dec 27, 2016 at 17:33 | comment | added | Thom Blair III | This is crazy, so I'm not going to put it in an answer where it'd get downvoted into infinity, but what about armored vehicles, like hamster balls? Something like this: thisiswhyimbroke.com/human-hamster-ball | |
| Dec 27, 2016 at 17:13 | answer | added | Paul TIKI | timeline score: 20 | |
| Dec 27, 2016 at 15:35 | comment | added | thanby | @user6760 Sun Tzu in a nutshell | |
| Dec 27, 2016 at 15:13 | answer | added | Michael Richardson | timeline score: 60 | |
| Dec 27, 2016 at 15:02 | answer | added | Faerindel | timeline score: 8 | |
| Dec 27, 2016 at 14:56 | answer | added | JBiggs | timeline score: 24 | |
| Dec 27, 2016 at 10:45 | history | edited | James K | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 27, 2016 at 9:20 | comment | added | user6760 | Don't bother with armor they're just going to slow ur forces, speed is the essence of war strike quickly under the cover of dark and pull out immediately causing the enemies to confuse. The point is to drain the enemy strength and spirit so avoid head on clash, create diversions and taunt em into traps last but not least let the weather elements such as rain weight down on them. | |
| Dec 27, 2016 at 7:56 | history | edited | TrEs-2b | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 27, 2016 at 7:42 | comment | added | Thom Blair III | Yep, mechs would be pretty awesome. | |
| Dec 27, 2016 at 7:39 | comment | added | James | Tres you should really define a tech level that is available. Because the obvious answer is power armor. | |
| Dec 27, 2016 at 7:38 | answer | added | Thom Blair III | timeline score: 7 | |
| Dec 27, 2016 at 7:32 | comment | added | M i ech | Doesn't sound like this species is well adapted for combat, or living, actually. How did they evolve weak skeletons, and why are they starting the war? | |
| Dec 27, 2016 at 7:18 | history | asked | TrEs-2b | CC BY-SA 3.0 |