Rules Clarification: Costume vs. Professional armor

What about this...  Since a fair amount of people DO have the micro-mesh chainmail, what if we made that a designated phys rep for Mithril armor?  Mithril is supposedly lightweight to begin with, and if you look at most movies set in that sort of era, a similar weave is used for that armor type.  This would also compensate the additional time it takes to smith the armor, while at the same time keeping the current player base that DOES have it and already invested in it happier.

The issue with that is that a player used OOG money/resources to get a suit of IG mithril armor.  Remember mithril turns body damage attacks to regular damage as well as generally has higher AP and Soak.

My personal opinion is to teat costume armor like latex weapons.  These weapons are lighter, look better, and generally perform better for the user.  Drawback is that they have to use them properly or gewt their priveleges revoked.

No, perhaps you misunderstand me Paul.  If they have a suit of Mithril Chainmail armor IG already, allow the micromesh to be used as a phys rep for it as opposed to the heavier more historically accurate style.

I know we cannot REQUIRE a designated phys rep, but it was just an idea I was throwing out there.

Oh.. Yeah, I did misread that.  No worries.

As per Ap for Professional grade leather armor, Will the gauge of the armor play a factor in the amount of AP you get?. I also have a leather pig skin war skirt that is thin but a bit rigid, Its is made of real leather. Would this be considers costume?  I'm sure it would need to obviously be inspected in person, but i was just wondering what your thoughts would be.

AP is determined by coverage, but not thickness.

I'll ask about micro-mesh, and we'll determine what it counts as.  If it's steel, it's still authentic materials, but if it's aluminum, it's not.