Combat Table in Two Columns

I really wanted the dice-neutral combat table in the previous post to be even simpler, just two columns. Because, you see, shifting right one column is equivalent to shifting up one row. It seems like a waste to have so many columns. But I couldn’t quite get a format that was easy to read and use that way. What I was thinking was something more like this:

Combat Level	Treats This Armor As If No Armor
Normal Man	No Armor
Hero	Light Armor (Leather)
Champion	Medium Armor (Chain/Metal)
Lord	Heavy Armor (Plate)
Grand Champion	Very Heavy Armor

The way you’d use this would be to look up the attacker’s combat level first, then move across to the armor column, then move up or down to the actual armor type, counting the number of rows shifted up or down. That’s the modifier to the base target number. Again, the base number and modifier size depends on the dice rolled:

Dice Mechanic	Target #	Modifier per Shift Up/Down
1d6 roll high	3 or more	+/- 1 point
2d6 roll high	6 or more	+/- 1 point
1d20 roll high	10+	+/- 2 points

For roll under, the target numbers are different and modifiers need to be added to the target number rather than the roll:

Dice Mechanic	Target #	Modifier per Shift Up/Down
1d6 roll low	up to 4	+/- 1 point to target
2d6 roll low	up to 8	+/- 1 point to target
1d20 roll low	up to 11	+/- 2 points to target

Does this seem less confusing, or more confusing? Can it be fixed just with better wording, or is it not worth it?

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