Their armour was meant to protect only against sabres and light lances.

Their armour consisted of a conical helmet, a mail hauberk, and a kite-shaped shield.

Their tough armour means that they do not have to be manoeuvred as carefully as units of other armies ( such as the frail Eldar ).

Their use never altogether ceased and in modern armies mounted cuirassiers, armed as in earlier days with breast and back plates, have in some degree emulated the martial splendour of the body armour of the era of medieval chivalry.

Their armies reflect this, with their vehicles emphasising speed over armour protection.

Their main feature was the limited use of arms and armour and emphasis on horsemanship.

Their battledress varies between media, ranging from equipment comparable to modern-day fatigues ( or just being contemporary, such as the equipment of Colonial Marines in the re-imaged Battlestar Galactica ) to environmentally sealed suits of powered armour.

Their knight in shining armour, a free spirit called Douwe, looks like him without the black cape, comedy-cheeks and fool's hat.

Their light armour has been criticised for leading to loss of life in Afghanistan, however it is considerably better than the Iltis predecessor.

Their role as shapeshifters also makes high Constitution useful, as animal forms gain no benefit from armour, are limited to melee attacks and retain existing hit points.

Their talons and fangs are so long and sharp they can pierce steel armour and behead a man with a single bite.

Their role in conventional war, as the prime manoeuvre and armoured punch in a brigade, is to destroy enemy armour and, working closely with armoured infantry, to seize and hold ground.

Their beards are arranged in vertical curls, and their armour ( particularly helmets ), weapons and architecture are reminiscent of these cultures.

Their armour class and hit points can be magically raised and they can cast a shield which harms their opponent when they strike the Ranger.

Their armour appears to have varied depending on the type of mission they were conducting.

Their typical motives for telling their stories is so the younger generation will know what they endured and how far they have come ( The Maid Narratives, van Wormer, Jackson, and Sudduth, 2012, LSU Press ).

Their relationship endured and they remained partners for the rest of their lives, a fact made all the more extraordinary by the hysteria about homosexuality generated by the Oscar Wilde trial of 1895 and the Criminal Law Amendment Bill passed a decade earlier " outlawing all forms of male homosexual contact ".

Their kingdom was known as Galliciense Regnum and endured until 585.

Their styling owed much to the English garden suburb tradition ( seen at Bournville, Letchworth, Saltaire, Port Sunlight and Welwyn Garden City ) and garden areas and front boundaries were generally more varied than on contemporary estates within military bases where state ownership endured over a longer period.

Their art collects and distills the experiences of the men and women who endured in it.

Their wins-2-1 over Cascade Surge at home, 1-0 over Ogden Outlaws on the road in Utah, and 5-3 over Spokane Spiders at home on the final day of the season-were scant reward for the Yakima fans who endured watching their team lose 8 straight games from mid-June to the end of July, including a 5-0 walloping by Tacoma Tide.

Their father, when he came back from those many business trips, just bumped their mother on the forehead with his lips and asked if anybody had thought to mix the martinis and put them in the electric icebox.

Their meditations were approaching a violent cusp that would shape Martian art for many millennia.

Most Protestants deny the need for this type of continuity and the historical claims involved have been severely questioned ; Eric Jay comments that the account given of the emergence of the episcopate in chapter III of Lumen Gentium " is very sketchy, and many ambiguities in the early history of the Christian ministry are passed over " Their reasons are given in detail below.

Their many differences in features such as biochemistry, pigmentation, and nutrient reserves show that they diverged very early in evolutionary time.

Their machine instruction sets favored one or many high level programming languages, such as ALGOL, COBOL or FORTRAN.

Their many voids are a greater proportion of the volume than the solid, thin walls of fired clay.

Their inherent focus on practical implementation of technology has tended to keep them oriented more towards incremental-level redesigns and reconfigurations, as opposed to revolutionary research & development or ideas that would be many years from clinical adoption ; however, there is a growing effort to expand this time-horizon over which clinical engineers can influence the trajectory of biomedical innovation.

Their presence was met by protesters, including many from the University.

Their speeds have been exceeded many times by modern yachts, but never by a commercial sail vessel.

" Their doctrines have numerous resemblances to those of the Bogomils and the earlier Paulicians as well as the Manicheans and the Christian Gnostics of the first few centuries AD, although, as many scholars, most notably Mark Pegg, have pointed out, it would be erroneous to extrapolate direct, historical connections based on theoretical similarities perceived by modern scholars.

Their areoles identify them as cacti, and in spite of their appearance they too have many adaptations for water conservation.

Their official status in Israel was an ongoing issue for many years, but in May 1990, the issue was resolved with the issuing of first B / 1 visas, and a year later, issuing of temporary residency.

Their attack was halted when German citizens who were loyal to the state went on strike, cutting off many services and making daily life so problematic that the coup was called off.

Their number increased significantly during the 18th century, and again when many Spaniards left their jobs in Gibraltar after General Franco closed the border in 1969.

Their ambivalent or tragic sexuality held deep attractions for many goth readers, making her works popular in the eighties through the nineties.

Their many male heirs created more and smaller estates, and from a largely free class of officials previously formed, many of these assumed or acquired hereditary rights to administrative and legal offices.

Their views continued to be popular with many Bolsheviks throughout most of the Russian Civil War and their supporters, including Podvoisky, who became one of Trotsky's deputies, were a constant thorn in Trotsky's side.

Their shipbuilding methods spread through extensive contact with other cultures, and ships from the 11th and 12th centuries are known to borrow many of the longships ’ design features, despite the passing of many centuries.

Their commercial empire directly and indirectly controls events throughout Known Space and beyond, and Puppeteer plots are behind many of the larger events in Known Space.

Their development work ( and subsequent contributions to the free MUMPS application codebase ) was an influence on many medical users worldwide.

Their slow-moving, curious nature, coupled with dense coastal development, has led to many violent collisions with propeller-driven boats and ships, leading frequently to maiming, disfigurement, and even death.

Their deployment to maintain order in the former Confederate states, caused increased resentment among many Southern whites.

Their toppling of the RPCR ( that was until then seen as the only voice of New Caledonian whites ) was a surprise to many, and a sign that the society of New Caledonia is undergoing changes.