Leather armor



Leather Armor is a lightweight body armor made from tanned brahmin hide, offering protection from firearms and melee damage.

Origins
The original Leather Armor was designed for Motorcycle Football and other dangerous contact sports. It is likely that the simple construction techniques required to produce armor of this design made it a popular choice following a nuclear disaster. It provides moderate protection, and the light construction makes it easier to dodge attacks while worn. Unfortunately, it provides little to no protection against explosions or plasma attack.

Fallout Tactics
The Midwestern Brotherhood of Steel designed their own version of the leather armour, as a standard issue for all human members of the organization.

Special: Damage Resistance +25%

Fallout 3
Leather Armor in Fallout 3 offers significant improvements over previous games, being comparable to the Recon Armor and superior to Vault Security Armor and the Raider armors (Badlands, Blastmaster, and Sadist). Effectivly, it's the poor mans Combat Armor. Its appearance in Fallout 3 is also drastically different compared to previous games, now being a black color and resembling the outfit worn by Mad Max in Road Warrior, an easter egg previously done by the Leather Jacket. Jericho wears a unplayable version of leather armor, which cannot be taken from him or used by the player and has a different ID.

Defender Armor
Defender Armor is a piece of Fallout 3 armor identical to leather armor in all but name.

It does not appear in the game itself and can only be obtained via console commands.

Appearances
Leather Armor appears in all Fallout games.

Armure de cuir