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During a melee, a slight variation in the breastplate would I think keep the Ursinuim further away and always within range of the beak.

I don't know how clear this is, and the orange is now brown. And that's not blood near the correction fluid/white-out.

The orange/brown is the portions of the armour you can see with a casual glance, the parts uncovered. The blue is immediately beneath the orange. The outer neck lame (the leftmost one above the left prong of the arrow pointed at the neck in general) is attached to the bottom of the helmet from the outside, so three sides are coloured orange. But the visor (where the beak is attached to) sits on top the lower piece of the helmet (where the neck lames are) so the visor covers the bottom piece and the leftmost-outer neck lame by ONE, so the tops of the lower helmet piece and the neck lame are traced in blue.

If that made any sense at all. Sorry.

Orange: outside exposed to the sun and air
Blue: has one layer of metal over it.
Green: has two layers of metal over it. When drilling somewhere with a green line, you'll have to bore through the orange piece and then the blue piece, then you'll touch the green piece. The best depiction (I hope) is the top of the head.

I misspelled it: it's supposed to be "criniere." Those are marked in red and further protect the neck but are not attached to the armour.

Chain (mail) not shown.

This is the final design of the armour; To save myself trouble I will not change it anymore.

A specialised unit of the Barrier Land's Western Legion colloquially known as "Ironclad" had one goal: to hunt the Ursinium to extinction within two years.

Ursinium, or bears, were stronger than horses, had a better sense of smell than a wolf, and were smarter than hyoo-mans, but tended to lose their sophistication during battle. In a melee, the Ursinium preferred to drop their weapons and wrestle with their enemies, and when one rank of Ursinium engaged in melee the rest charged into the fray. Ironclad counted on those when they designed and forged their barding. With two alternating layers of overlapping plates, not counting the criniere, to guard the front of the neck, aforward cuirass that seemed a wedge plough, and a ghastly, sightless chamrpon, an Ironclad soldier's center of gravity stood directly on the forelegs.
In wrestling, it was advantageous to stand lower or be not as tall as the opponent as it forces one to hunch or lean forward, making him more difficult to topple backwards. Bears were heavier than ponies to begin with, but with the added mass of the armour and their generally smaller stature this unit now hoped to make themselves better wrestlers: A center of gravity placed to the front (on their forelegs), further away from the pivot point (their hind legs), would increase torque.

Torque is a force to rotate an object about an axis or pivot point. For example, try pushing a door (an already open door so you don't need to turn the knob) near the doorknob to open it. Pretty easy, right? Now bring the door back and try pushing it open near the hinges. It's a lot harder, right?

That's torque; torque equals force (how hard you push) multiplied by the "lever arm" (the distance between where you place your hand to push and the pivot point, where the turning thing remains in place. In this case the pivot point is the hinges of the door). When you push the door near the knob, the lever arm value is higher than when you push it near the hinges. With a greater lever arm length, you don't have to apply as much force, or push as hard, to achieve the same torque. When the length is shorter, you have to give more force and push harder to get the same torque.

Now try pushing the door open by pushing against the latch, that thing that goes into the door when the knob is turned. Almost impossible, right? That's because the force in the equation Torque = Force x length is only the force component perpendicular (90 degrees or pi/4 radians to) to the lever arm.

Torque thing - this is an I hope decent worked-out example of a torque problem.

An increased mass (mass multiplied by accerleration of gravity equals weight, a force) might have compensated for the loss of torque due to their being smaller, but smaller along with weight might have made them more difficult to topple.

No one mentioned fighting with honour; no one recognised it; perhaps fighting and winning with honour better demonstrated one's superiority, but the Ironclad unit was not out to fight. It was to kill. When locked, they turned their heads and carved their beaks into flesh, causing more pain and disturbance than actual damage. Once an Ursin warrior fell it would still be alive.

Normal force is the force that balances another force. It is the thing that stops you from sinking through the ground or your hand from pushing through a wall. Your foot will slightly sink when you step in mud because the mud does not exhibit enough of a normal force to hold you up, but you don't sink indefinitely because the layer of mud is hopefully not deep and there's dirt beneath to keep you from sinking.

Fallen Ursinium, dead or alive, would not have had the normal force to hold up the mass of an armoured pony. The hooves would sink down into and through flesh to powder bone. Their movement was hindered; they could only take small steps.

And shall we say, they sent the Ursinium to a lower dimension.

I wonder if I type these meshugaas for myself or just in hopes of impressing QwixLochFlow.

Description
During a melee, a slight variation in the breastplate would I think keep the Ursinuim further away and always within range of the beak.

I don't know how clear this is, and the orange is now brown. And that's not blood near the correction fluid/white-out.

The orange/brown is the portions of the armour you can see with a casual glance, the parts uncovered. The blue is immediately beneath the orange. The outer neck lame (the leftmost one above the left prong of the arrow pointed at the neck in general) is attached to the bottom of the helmet from the outside, so three sides are coloured orange. But the visor (where the beak is attached to) sits on top the lower piece of the helmet (where the neck lames are) so the visor covers the bottom piece and the leftmost-outer neck lame by ONE, so the tops of the lower helmet piece and the neck lame are traced in blue.

If that made any sense at all. Sorry.

Orange: outside exposed to the sun and air
Blue: has one layer of metal over it.
Green: has two layers of metal over it. When drilling somewhere with a green line, you'll have to bore through the orange piece and then the blue piece, then you'll touch the green piece. The best depiction (I hope) is the top of the head.

I misspelled it: it's supposed to be "criniere." Those are marked in red and further protect the neck but are not attached to the armour.

Chain (mail) not shown.

This is the final design of the armour; To save myself trouble I will not change it anymore.

A specialised unit of the Barrier Land's Western Legion colloquially known as "Ironclad" had one goal: to hunt the Ursinium to extinction within two years.

Ursinium, or bears, were stronger than horses, had a better sense of smell than a wolf, and were smarter than hyoo-mans, but tended to lose their sophistication during battle. In a melee, the Ursinium preferred to drop their weapons and wrestle with their enemies, and when one rank of Ursinium engaged in melee the rest charged into the fray. Ironclad counted on those when they designed and forged their barding. With two alternating layers of overlapping plates, not counting the criniere, to guard the front of the neck, aforward cuirass that seemed a wedge plough, and a ghastly, sightless chamrpon, an Ironclad soldier's center of gravity stood directly on the forelegs.
In wrestling, it was advantageous to stand lower or be not as tall as the opponent as it forces one to hunch or lean forward, making him more difficult to topple backwards. Bears were heavier than ponies to begin with, but with the added mass of the armour and their generally smaller stature this unit now hoped to make themselves better wrestlers: A center of gravity placed to the front (on their forelegs), further away from the pivot point (their hind legs), would increase torque.

Torque is a force to rotate an object about an axis or pivot point. For example, try pushing a door (an already open door so you don't need to turn the knob) near the doorknob to open it. Pretty easy, right? Now bring the door back and try pushing it open near the hinges. It's a lot harder, right?

That's torque; torque equals force (how hard you push) multiplied by the "lever arm" (the distance between where you place your hand to push and the pivot point, where the turning thing remains in place. In this case the pivot point is the hinges of the door). When you push the door near the knob, the lever arm value is higher than when you push it near the hinges. With a greater lever arm length, you don't have to apply as much force, or push as hard, to achieve the same torque. When the length is shorter, you have to give more force and push harder to get the same torque.

Now try pushing the door open by pushing against the latch, that thing that goes into the door when the knob is turned. Almost impossible, right? That's because the force in the equation Torque = Force x length is only the force component perpendicular (90 degrees or pi/4 radians to) to the lever arm.

Torque thing - this is an I hope decent worked-out example of a torque problem.

An increased mass (mass multiplied by accerleration of gravity equals weight, a force) might have compensated for the loss of torque due to their being smaller, but smaller along with weight might have made them more difficult to topple.

No one mentioned fighting with honour; no one recognised it; perhaps fighting and winning with honour better demonstrated one's superiority, but the Ironclad unit was not out to fight. It was to kill. When locked, they turned their heads and carved their beaks into flesh, causing more pain and disturbance than actual damage. Once an Ursin warrior fell it would still be alive.

Normal force is the force that balances another force. It is the thing that stops you from sinking through the ground or your hand from pushing through a wall. Your foot will slightly sink when you step in mud because the mud does not exhibit enough of a normal force to hold you up, but you don't sink indefinitely because the layer of mud is hopefully not deep and there's dirt beneath to keep you from sinking.

Fallen Ursinium, dead or alive, would not have had the normal force to hold up the mass of an armoured pony. The hooves would sink down into and through flesh to powder bone. Their movement was hindered; they could only take small steps.

And shall we say, they sent the Ursinium to a lower dimension.

I wonder if I type these meshugaas for myself or just in hopes of impressing QwixLochFlow.