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Damrod · 10-21-2006, 09:43 PM

Faramir didn't really need to have plate armor, did he? He was deployed with the rangers-light and stealthy. Guerilla attacks on the dark lord's forces, like the Harad road battle scene in TTT. The rangers wore brown or green cloaks and hooded their faces. As calandil said before (too lazy to hit the quote button)"he cannot walk around in the woods wearing nice shiny armor". He would be pretty easy to see, and with the weight and heft of plate armor he would be easy to track and follow as well. Not good, as the rangers' strength is being able to sneak around Ithilien in their secret forts and over and back the Anduin.

10-21-2006, 09:43 PM	#31
Damrod Animated Skeleton Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 30	No expert knoledge , but I'll post anyway Faramir didn't really need to have plate armor, did he? He was deployed with the rangers-light and stealthy. Guerilla attacks on the dark lord's forces, like the Harad road battle scene in TTT. The rangers wore brown or green cloaks and hooded their faces. As calandil said before (too lazy to hit the quote button)"he cannot walk around in the woods wearing nice shiny armor". He would be pretty easy to see, and with the weight and heft of plate armor he would be easy to track and follow as well. Not good, as the rangers' strength is being able to sneak around Ithilien in their secret forts and over and back the Anduin.