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Bladed weapons, yes, unless there is enough force behind the blade to bruise through the helmet then the victim is completely safe. Some blunt weapons will also bounce without enough force, but persistence is rewarding.

As with real-life close combat my mod actually puts a lot of weight on to wrestling, and the tactic of occasionally manipulating your opponents armour (in this case, removing the helmet) to exploit their weaknesses. I realise the AI cannot normally do this, and I compensate by balancing for common sense; sword vs hammer in armoured combat, the hammer is going to (usually) win, period. Otherwise the sword has the advantage in unarmoured combat.

but NPCs will just attack the helmet over and over for months, which is stupid. Balance with the assumption that the AI will be performing most the combat imo

yup - thanks!

some changes to armor -- to prevent wearing 5 chainmail shirts, 5 cloaks etc would also be welcome.

Stal's armory pack mod addresses this well - http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=142993.msg5612370#new

Kobold camp for an otherwise vanilla DF install would be nice

Interestingly, in my most recent game I received two full ambush squads of 4-5 kobolds, swords and bows respectively, BEFORE the first migrant wave. This has never happened to me previously - normally I'd expect a flow of kobold theives from the get go, but no serious aggression. Anyone else finding danger comes much sooner now?

edit: excellently, both squads were massacred by a single carpenter with an obsidian sword and a martial trance 

I miss the 40d days where the weaponmasters would be rocking a complete set of master crafted armor.

Combat would be more interesting and gradient of opponents more varied if we could get this in.

It would likewise be nice to be able to mod different races to default to wearing certain types of armor.

The only thing I find difficult with these tiles is spotting Z-level open space/drops, as they look very similar to normal ground tiles.