Armor Training - other ways to get it?

[Skrayper]

I've got levels in a fighter archetype called Lore Warden (the PFSFG version), but I was trying to see if there was a way to get Armor Training and Heavy Armor proficiency to get Poised Bearing and Imposing Bearing eventually. The character is super-focused on light fighting build (Inspired Blade 5 / Virtuous Bravo 6 / Lore Warden 2), but I need Armor Training and Heavy Armor proficiency to get those feats (I'm a crit build that has both Staggering Critical along with Greater Trip + Tripping Strike).

I am having no luck finding any other archetypes outside of the fighter class that grants Armor Training, except for Yojimbo Samurai, and I'm pretty sure the way that class grants it wouldn't work for this.

Are there any archetypes or the like out there that gives it, or is the only real method to retain Lore Warden?

[DeathlessOne]

You can get access to it with 7 level of investment into Cleric, worshiping Gorum, and taking Ironbound Master. It explicitly gives you the class features as if a fighter. It's probably too much investment for your purposes but ... there you go.

[VoodistMonk]

There is a Bloodrager archetype that gets it. Myrmidarch Magus gets it, too.

[Java Man]

Also the Guntank Gunslinger and Armored Battlemage Magus.

[Belafon]

Basically your choices are:

Drop Lore Warden and change to 3 levels of a fighter archetype that doesn't lose Armor Training.
3 levels of: Magus Armored Battlemage, Samurai Yojimbo, Vigilante Masked Maiden, or the Sanguine Angel prestige class.
4 Levels of: Gunslinger Gun Tank
5 levels of: Bloodrager Steelblood
7 levels of: Oracle Purifier or Cleric (of Gorum) with the Ironbound Master feat
8 levels of: Magus Myrmidarch

All of those should qualify you for Poised Bearing and Imposing Bearing because they either give you a class feature called "armor training" or a feature that gives you an ability "as the fighter armor training" ability.

Yojimbo or Masked Maiden are probably the best choices as they both grant you Heavy Armor Proficiency and Armor Training within three levels. Armored Battlemage doesn't get Heavy Armor Proficiency until 7th level and Sanguine Angel has a ton of prerequisites you would have to take.

[Liliyashanina]

If you have the body slot free, talk to your GM about getting a Sash of the war champion.
This would limit level 1 armor training to a single dip for many of these choices.

[Belafon]

Liliyashanina wrote:

If you have the body slot free, talk to your GM about getting a Sash of the war champion.

This would limit level 1 armor training to a single dip for many of these choices.

There is a potential language argument to be made here because the Sash of the War Champion isn't worded perfectly, but in general you don't count as having a class feature until you reach the level where the class feature is granted so the Sash wouldn't do anything at level 1. Discuss with your GM to determine how she would rule.

Once you do get Armor Training, you should definitely get the Sash.