Notes - Armour requirements

Editing required

• Footnote re 1.3mm helms can be removed, not longer valid
• Update as per rulings and clarifcations below.

Angele (talk) 17:40, 17 June 2018 (NZST)

Actual notes

Mesh - December 2015
Ruling - mesh is required to protect the face, not the skull.
Mesh is required under Lochac rules to protect delicate facial features what would not survive an unintended helm penetration such as eyes and teeth. Mesh is not required to fill the skull holes on Vendal style helmets. As with all armour, the design is to prevent traumatic and unrecoverable injury, pain however is up to the tolerance level of the individual and what level they are willing to accept. - Jarl Niall

Knee armour - August 2016
An "air gap" alone is NOT equivalent padding. An air gap, does not protect the knee if a fighter drops to their knees suddenly (either purposely or as a result of a fall)
Knees need to be padded, in a way that is 6.35mm of resilient material or equivalent (read padding). For example, commercial sports knee pads. - Jarl Niall

Underside of the chin - September 2017
Now I know that in the past, placing a sword edgewise onto the base of the helm with head tilted backwards and the sword not touching skin was acceptable. However with the prevalence of low profile thrusting tips on both single and two handed weapons as well as 2 inch thrusting tips on fibreglass pikes, I am now saying that if you can get an unimpeded 32mm (1.25 inch) low profile thrusting tip onto an unarmoured area anywhere from the sternal notch (hollow in throat below the larynx) to the tip of the chin then your armour does not meet the requirements. - Jon Dai of the Lane