Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-29729442-20161212012142

If you read the Manual of Armor you may have noticed that light armor is to be used during raids and skirmishs. But what are these?

Raiding is a military tatic where the objective is not to defeat and control, but to finish with the raiding force quickly retreating to a previous defended position prior to enemy forces being able to respond in a co-ordinated manner or formulate a counter-attack (in other words: causing damage without taking control over the territory). Skirmish is a minor battle in a war, be it between small troops or by outlying detachments (lying to separated enemy groups to confuse them) of the enemy. None of these match the leggionaires that fight over forts and that are ecountered during "Battle for Whiterun" and "Battle for Windhelm".

The book also mentions that heavy armor is to be used by frontline infantry (the soldiers that directly attack the enemy during a battle), and THIS matches with the soldiers that are encountered in preety much every Civil War quest (in Battle for Whiterun, for example, the amount of stormcloak soldiers attacking is supposed to be huge, so logically infantry would be sent there to protect the city). There is a mod for the Special Edition that "fixes" this (so obviously I do not recommend you to buy Skyrim for PS3 and XBOX 360): it is called "Civil War Equipment Organization" and it is completely friendly with "Manual of Armor". 