What if (as we've seen in the past) you are not able to get to the fight after re-equipping due to distance. I mean you die, and would have considerable distance to go back for a "ready bag".

Fighting naked does no one any good either, and looting to get back into a fight is common among other clans who practice heavy open field fighting, especially for arrows or regs, or a weapon and some armor. If you don't open field loot as needed, what eventually happens is your strength on the field slowly trickles away as one by one people are forced to fall to the rear to re-equip and those few still up front get over powered and fall out numbered.

I am just asking not criticising, and am not advocating the combat looter, just posing a opposite perspective.

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