How to damage leg plates?

[Yoshikami]

Is there a reliable way of damaging chausses (leg plates)? I'm trying to setup a stealth set with some decent amount of armor so I'm not useless when I mess up sneaking. I've padded all my gear (stuffing perk) except for the leg plates. Even a duel with Bernard using real weapons don't damage them.

[Butch]

Hm, maybe try letting an enemy attack you while you're on horseback? He might hit your legs, if he attacks you first before unhorsing you. Other than that, just regular combat. My leg armour gets damaged all the time, don't think that should be a problem tbh.

[DargonBlak]

This is the second time i've seen this posted in the past year - and i think you may be over-thinking things.

I don't believe the first one was ever resolved to the OP's satisfaction.

You could try only wearing leg armor for training maybe.

Or maybe melee combat from horse back.

Or maybe find a dog that is willing to attack you

Or jumping up in the air to try and catch arrows with your legs.

But this all seems rather contrived.

[Triple G]

If Your leg armor doesn´t get damaged - it also means that You probably don´t need leg armor to have a decent armor with stealth gear.

My gear was like - some brown hut/cap, leather gloves, tight black trousers, black sneaky boots, black saxon gambison, in mid game i added a black aachen brigantine and some neck chainmail thingy. I don´t know the exact names of those in english. I could get more armor while still having zero noise - but it would raise my visibility - and it´s also about the looks - no? :o)

If You loot some leg armor it should be damaged, because usually every enemy has damaged gear - that´s one reason why You are a bit OP compared to them.

[Yoshikami]

I found a solution. It's a bit silly though. I forgot that you can unlock in combat by pressing shift. Once unlocked I was able to jump. So.... I just jumped whenever my enemy was about to attack.



What I did was challenge Milan to a fistfight and jumped whenever he attacked. For best results, I jumped on top of the fence of the arena we were fighting at to ensure that he was hitting my legs.