Brawling bug?

[happy_emi]

Just a question about brawling. I don't know if it's a bug or it's just me not getting the rules but...

well I tried to equip a chainmail (EC:4) on my main character (a full-mage) which does not use any weapons and I get NO penalty to parry and attack. If I equip swords, maces, everything else I get the 1/2 penalty as it should be (after subtracting the weapon class EEC of course).

I tried on other character and I get the same behaviour. It's strange because brawling has 0EEC so I should get the penalty.
Is this a bug?

Another strange thing happens when I equip that armor to a character with weapon with 1 EEC.
I get 4-1 = 3 EEC.
Problem is that when I equip that armor AT is lowered by 1 and PA by 2. Is it possible that AT decrease is rounded down and PA rounded up?

I didn't check in-battle log so I don't know which numbers are really used during battle

[AilricDeVanda]

I don't think brawling was meant to be used as anything else but for show in the game
Technically you are not equiping a weapon so it doesn't take your EC into account

In the second case when you equip a weapon with EC 1 it basically tells you that it can ignore your EC by one point
Usually axes have more tolerance than say rogue weapons like daggers and fencing weapons

The reason your AT and PA is reduced is because you already have 3 EC on your character (to see how much it affects check the WM of your weapon which is eg. (1, -2) or anything else)

For detailed information check Roban's guide

[Amosh]

Another strange thing happens when I equip that armor to a character with weapon with 1 EEC.
I get 4-1 = 3 EEC.
Problem is that when I equip that armor AT is lowered by 1 and PA by 2. Is it possible that AT decrease is rounded down and PA rounded up?

Yes, sort of: The penalty is equally divided among AT and PA. If EEC is an odd number, the extra point is taken from PA.