I also believe in the vanilla that chainmail shouldn't have had a 100% bonus to cutting, in fact it weak against it in real life.  Same for Plate vs Blunt.  If someone wanted to make it so they took 100% more damage from those types, fine.  But not double the armor rating basically against a type they should be weak against.

I hope you would take up this issue.  I like the idea of starting out with crude, having more tiers.  Interesting. 

Update.

So I have compiled a list of all the different base armor types I want to make.  I have started working the numbers out and what you have both said has made some sense but the research I have done I have made a few changes to armor types.

Leather has a bonus to blunt defense as the leather padding acts as an absorber (+5 * Tier additional armor for a set).

Chain has a bonus to cutting as this is how it is designed to work, or put another way it has a weakness to piercing (it has holes) and blunt the force isn't stopped by the rings.  However because of the weight it has an inherent dodge penalty of (test version) -10.

Plate has a bonus to piercing as for every reference I can find says, it was designed to help deflect small blows, arrows and knives.  You could also say it is weak to cutting, while it deflects a blow that sword can meet a crevasse and cut through the straps and such holding it together and the person below, and blunt because plate unless it was very thick got crushed like a tin can along with the person below that piece of armor.  However because of the weight it has an inherent dodge penalty of (test version) -20.

Crystal I have made it lighter and it protects less along with the following bonuses.

Chain has a total of 10 additional MR, I have not decided whether to add other types of resistance or just leave it a flat 10.

Plate is 20.

I have not yet added in the different variant armors for Athican Leathers, Heavy Chain, and Light plate but have some good ideas how to implement those.  I have left enough room between tiers to plug them in.  I am thinking Athican Leather armor though is going to be very attractive after this though.

That's it so far.  Let me know what you think.

P.S.  None of this is coded yet, I am going through the number first then will start plugging and chugging the code.

So in essence create a 4th tree that is effectively a hybrid tree of warfare and magic.  Hmm.  Where would it sit though.  Currently you have to choose whether you have something in the warfare tree or magic tree and can be affected by trading research.  By having a heavy amount of research going into magic tree you can potentially set it up that you can advance allies in the magic tree heavily.  I like the thought as it is basically an alteration of what what someone else said that magic items should be robes and things like that, and also what you said, cloaks.  This seems like a GOOD idea.  Make the 4th tree unlock when you have unlocked basic magic arms and armor techs and have it only affected by itself but make the research times MUCH higher but the rewards better.  Would take time to balance those though.

Interesting.

I think an independent path within the magic tree will suit what I am looking for as if you consider what is being proposed, it is magical armor after all.  This way you can differentiate within the magic tree for which way you want go, do you want to go the magic armor with heavy emphasis on foot/cavalry soldiers or do you want to go heavy cloth wearing magic users who sling spells instead of wielding swords.  I am thinking it would fit around tier 4 for the initial crystal chain and crystal plate, tier 5 masterwork crystal chain and then finally masterwork crystal plate at tier 6.  Thinking of the crystal armors I might add a penalty to blunt armor since it is made of crystal.  A parallel independent branch would be the weapon tree, but I will work on that after I have the armor set up.  Once armor is done the idea for the basic weapons should be reasonably easy to set up, in theory.  

Oh yeah something I was wondering about, if all of these items are added within the game will they fit within the sovereigns store?

Let me know if you figure out how to do that and I will add it in for mine as well, that way I can put leathers in a Town, regular chain and plate in a Fortress, and Magic stuff in a conclave.

You should really put your numbers into the FE Editor and set up a standard of damage you want to achieve. It makes it easier to build from a perspective of how efficient your armor is. 35-45 armor, for instance is not going to be a huge difference in damage. Spears go right through it and bows do 1-2 against both. I think in general the concept is solid though. Just maybe firm up your weapon numbers and assign all special weapon abilities next. 

How are you going to handle armor visuals? That is alot of new textures to add.

I think I firmed up the armor numbers finally.  Not sure if I should jump into implementing this in the code or do the weapons first.  Here are the final numbers for the armors.

Will these techs branch off the main warfare techs and dead end?

Alright, so I have been looking over weapons for the afternoon after finishing classes for the day and have noticed something that I think needs to get fixed or not depending on the direction I take.

I see it that there are effectively 8 types of Troops barring Armor.

1-Handed Blunt

2-Handed Blunt

1-Handed Cutting

2-Handed Cutting

1-Handed Piercing

2-Handed Piercing

Bow Ranged Attack

Magic (Staves) Ranged Attack

These are the standard types of attacks a set of troops can have.

 Krax is as far as I can tell the only one with access to 1-Handed Piercing and the damage is equal to 2-Handed piercing.  This is a HUGE flaw in this system.  I do not have a problem with them having exclusive access to a weapon but I do when it comes to having exclusive access to a LINE of weapons.  Also the fact that 1-Handed weapons having equal attack to 2-Handed is not acceptable.  I will be setting up a min of 1 of each of these types of weapons as close to the beginning of each tech tier as I can with the same of idea of two upgrades.  This combined with the armor upgrades gives the Warfare tree a great deal more variety similar to the Magic and Civ tree.  Eventually once I have the basic weapons down I will make the faction specific ones and then work on the magic ones.  The magic ones are easy as I am basically going to make them the same attack total but make it 50% regular attack and 50% one of the elements to be determined by the base damage type (blunt would do one type, cutting fire, piercing electric, something like that).

The more I crunch the numbers on the weapons I kind of like the way they are with a few changes and additions.  Like I said before lower Defensive version of spears attack but only slightly to balance them.  Add a hand axe to the first training type (low attack 1-handed cutting weapon), change regular axe to two handed (two handed cutting), change warhammer to two handed(two handed blunt), and change dagger to piercing damage.  This will give all access to make a base unit of all weapon types, just not access to the different unit sizes which require research.  So I need some help getting the game to recognize something as being two handed that was not previously.  Any ideas?

Alright will give it a go.

Never mind I will have to do two different lines as the base material is different.  I am going to make the magic tree a LOT more full of possibilities