Post armor. Chainmail, plate, brigandine, modern plate carriers, lamellar, everything
>>62045761No.
>>62045778ok
>>62045854Absurdly shit-ass riveted mail.Whoever made that should be ashamed of themselves.
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>>62045915that is genuinely sick
Where the linothorax chads at?
>>62045915man, between hi-tech trench warfare, soldiers returning to fight with prosthetics, total disregard for human lives, enthralled slave-soldiers, degenerate aristocracy, old technology being basically arcane magic to the users and weaponized orthodox church, this war makes WH40k look freakishly realisticI'm honestly surprised nobody fashioned a skull-shaped drone yet
>>62046029ayo what's up
>>62045868>noob
>>62046131>vaping
Arm or? What about arm and?
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>>62045874PRĂ–Ă–Ă–Ă–Ă–Ă–Ă–Ă–T!!
Kiribati armor>The I-Kiribati (people of the Kiribati islands) produced suits of armor made from coconut fiber. The armor provided protection from the dangerous shark’s-teeth-edged swords, spears, and daggers carried by island warriors. Each suit is made up of a set of overalls and sleeves made from coconut fiber, with a coconut fiber cuirass worn over the top. The distinctive cuirasses have high backboards to protect from attack from behind, and were often worn with thick belts made from woven coconut fiber or dried ray skin to protect the vital organs. The cuirasses are usually decorated, either with human hair, feathers or shells.>Warriors sometimes wore hand armor also made from coconut fiber, inlaid with shark’s teeth along the knuckles. The warriors would also wear fearsome-looking helmets made of porcupine fish skin, which dried hard in the sun and provided another layer of protection for the head. These helmets would usually have been worn over a coconut fiber or woven pandanus leaf cap.
A crupellarius, a type of heavy armored gladiator during the Roman Imperial age, whose origin was Gaul
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>>62046131I said linothorax, not lorica segmentatum
>>62047334It's fucking cool to see what people come up with in a largely pre-metal culture, for both weaponry and armor.
>>62047334There's a little shop in my old home town of Brighton which sells all sorts of armour and weapons, and actually had one of those fish helmets. The owner and I had a good talk about it. Really interesting.
>>62047404>>62047410That gladiator revolt image goes unreasonably hard for absolutely no reasonnot a cellphone in sight, just people living in the moment
>>62048429thats a really weird helmet
>>62048434It's an helmet for your chest, that's why it looks weird
>>62048505I know right is a hounskull, is left also a hounskull? Is there a name for that eye slit style?
>>62048565The helmet is still a hounskull bascinet, the visor style is Milanese, based on an extant example in Austria
>>62046029>memethoraxhopefully in hell
>>62049950>t. boiled leather virgin
>>62050021If I had any photoshop skills I would make this into a meme, one of those “what men want vs what women think men want.” Ones.
>>62046127>I'm honestly surprised nobody fashioned a skull-shaped drone yetIt is only matter of time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1D40uRCdxCoApparently people also wore some form of cotton protection
>>62050246>t. huffed to much glue fumes making your memethorax
>>62050615There were several companies selling metal armor for officers, but they sold extremely poorly. They were terrible for morale and soldiers often refused to follow a man wearing one.
>>62048451reminds me of OG DeS's fluted armor (besides the helmet)
>>62045862Underrated. There's really no answer to an armoured elephant.
>>62047334It's interesting to see how much time was invested in armour when materials were lacking. Compare that to brigadine
>>62045827What is this a maille armor suit for kings? look at those 3/8ths inch rings. Some royal cock wore that at some time.
>>62051845Finding the online museum galery from where this came might give you an answer, but yeah, it is a very high end mail shirt even if we ignore all the gold and jewel decorations
>>62051248Muh dick is an answer to an armoured elephant.
>>62050525Omnissiah wills it.
>>62046018>this is an example of an anime armourwut
>>62054807anime as as in like, "animated" or moving, since the breastplate isn't a solid piece
>>62048468tiddies!
I want a suit of armor.Gothic, with a sallet.How do I go about acquiring this?
>>62055344pay a reputable armorsmith several thousand dollars to make you a set over multiple months
>>62048451Chad
>>62054844Is the bevor for jousting with?
>>62055535Yeah, it's basically meant to divert the lance away from crushing your throat/jaw if it didn't skitter off your armor
>>62053404Damn, that's one tiny man.
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>>62056542>>62056616looks comfy. Bet it got tailored well for its owner
>>62056623Yeah, iirc it's one of the best examples of what's called "Costume armor", or armor designed to look like contemporary clothing. The metal sleeves are for dressy wear, while there was a more practical set of arm protection for battlefield use
>>62056700Here's a woodcut of wilhelm himself, wearing the armor
>>62056992>it's like wearing nothing at all!
>>62057000for as elegant as the joints are the overall foot combat set is really dumpy looking lmao
>>62053565>Pic. leather armour from Yunnan, 19th century.None have survived but there are some heavier variants with shoulder and lower body protection. Illustration from Zhang Shengwen's Da Li Guo Fan Xiang Tu Juan.
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>>62057084This type of armor was used during the Imjin War by Tusi auxiliaries.
>>62057013Imagine being a longbowman in that army and having to be all like "damn, Milord Henry VIII, you fuckin' fine, all heroic with your tight armor and horrific androgynous monster ass. I would totally honor you, both my feudal lord and the real me." when all you really want to do is fuck another 16 year old on your marriage bed. Like seriously imagine having to be an archer and not only stand in that army while Henry VIII flaunts his disgusting carapace in front of you, the favorable cuirass barely concealing his stretchmarks and leathery skin, and just muster there, formation after formation, hour after hour, while he perfected that tactic. Not only having to tolerate his monstrous fucking visage but his haughty attitude as everyone on the field tells him he’s STILL GOT IT and DAMN, HENRY VIII LOOKS LIKE THAT?? because they're not the ones who have to sit there and watch his blobby fucking royal face contort into types of grimaces you didn't even know existed before that day. You've been following nothing but a healthy diet of farming lore and seasons and later alleged princelings for your ENTIRE CAREER coming straight out of the boonies in the norf. You've never even seen anything this fucking disgusting before, and now you swear you can taste the sweat that's breaking out on his polished plate as he angles it to shine it suggestively at you, smugly assured that you are enjoying the opportunity to get paid to wait there and revel in his "balletic (for that is what he calls himself)" beauty, the beauty he worked so hard for with master smiths in the previous months. And then the sergeant calls for another volley, and you know you could kill every single person in this line before the beefeaters could put you down, but you sit there and endure, because you're fucking English. You're not going to lose your future heavenly recompense over this. Just bear it. Hide your face and bear it.
>>62057116Henry was fit as fuck in 1518 but they cancelled the tournament it was intended for. THIS is the fat fuck armor
>>62053404>>62056574>Manlytears clearing the corners with his Luger 1902 Carbine
>>62057231>Fat fuck armor>Couldn't even fit your average modern powerlifterWe've come a long way
>>62054834I always knew italian were weeaboos Should have known from the ramen
>>62045991>plate stops bullet>cool I guess>plate with a Saint on it stops bullet>holy fuck it was a miracle!Are ukranians retarded?
>>62058503Arn't they painted on afterwards? Unless they are going into battle with Icon plates.
>>62058681I’d think they’d be painted on first, like how Russians sling holy water or whatever on their rifles and shit.
Split ring armor from the 1800's. Very rare shit.
>>62058725Regardless of how silly it is at least its still practical and useful unlike the anti-drone prayers the ziggers do. Now that I think about it, I'm reminded of the picture of African militants running around in dresses trying to confuse the bullets. Amazing how very much like each other Russia and Africa tend to be.
George Clifford's Armour, one of greatest pre-modern suits of armour made, part of the Greenwich collection (which was the peak of armour making where all the best armoursmiths from England and abroad from Flanders etc came to Greenwich, London). George Clifford was Queen Elizabeth I's champion and it was stylised as being like an avatar of Queen Elizabeth I, so it has a bit of a feminine styling to it, it's sort of like Elizabeth I in the battlefield but worn by a man, a bit gender bender, it's godly. Originally many suits of armour would have been blued, where the steel is tempered so they shone brightly in colours, sort of a two-tone effect, like Need For Speed Street Racer cars sort of colours. Over time these armours lose this effect, so today people look at these armours and just see a plain steel colour, or some black, and don't realise originally they would have been bright blues, bright purples, reds, oranges. When this suit of armour was made it would've been like a two-tone black and flourescent blue, and the god would've popped more, so it would be the sort of colours that you associate with modern world and sci-fi and future and stuff, but that's actually how they got down in medieval times.
This is similar blued steel effect, suit of armour above would've looked something like that. Though they also tempered armour to make it red or purple or pink.
This is probably the greatest suit of medieval armour made, another one of the flagship Greenwich suits of armour, Henry VIII's foot armour when he was a young man, and this is purely The Business, no bullshit, the ultimate build. Almost 100% full body protection combined with pure ergonomics and full body mobility.Armour, in terms of medieval armour, before designing armour against firearms, doesn't get any better than this for doing the job of 99% protection and 99% mobility. This is the peak.
>>62058503>atheist can't stand genuine belief and cultural impact of religionKek I am glad your kind will be extinct within decades and people will look back in disgust and shame at your beliefs.
>>62058990Only way you could really get to the guy is through the eye slits, or just caving his armor in with a big fucking rock.Maybe a knife to the groin, if it isn't covered in mail
>>62059035nta but religion is dyingeven retarded shit like islam is in constant decine
>>62059049The main weapon of the medieval period was the pole-axe, picrel, with an axe on one side and hammer on the other (today there's a big common distinction of 'axe' and 'hammer', traditionally an 'axe' is intrinsically something that has a heavy flat implement on one side).Armour can protect you from a weapon directly hitting your flesh, but it doesn't protect you from concussive effects. There's a term in the English language to be 'poleaxed' when someone is knocked down, still sometimes said in Britain today. Like KO, like 'go down like a sack of shit', which comes from medieval meaning of successfully land good poleaxe strike. If you're hit by a hammer or axe on the end of a long pole in a very fast swing it could cause unconsciousness, break bones, cause internal hemorrhaging etc.The ideal typical thing would be powerful blow square to the centre of the chest and that could break the rib cage, but some armours were designed with protrusions in the centre of the chest for this purpose to deflect blows to the chest and more padding to the chest behind breastplate. But to land such a blow is difficult against a trained opponent so the fighting was primarily done with the 2 ends of the pole-axe where it's a spear-like weapon.
Better example of poleaxe with the spear at the tip. Armour won't stop you getting floored or even put unconscious by that.
reliquary armors
>>62058990I think suits like that are only for duels or planned combats, having even the butt encased seems mighty uncomfortable if you still have ride on a horse before you arrive at the battlefield.
>>62059263>No, it was a decidedly knightly weaponKnights and Men-at-Arms is what's relevant. You could say rifles were the main weapon of WW2, or you could talk about what actually fights and wins wars which is the tanks and artillery etc, the realistic statement is tanks and bombers were the main weapon of WW2 - and of course many battles were mostly knights and men-at-arms.> you're not gonna find any in, say, the 11th centuryBy 'Medieval period' I mean High Middle Ages and begininng of Modern Period, we're talking about around 1400-1600, which is the period with armour being discussed. 'Middle Ages' is Early (5th century to 11th century), High (11th century to 14th century), and Late (14th century to 16th century).> It's also a weapon for fighting on footCorrect. Why the 'also'? Is saying that it's for fighting on foot supposed to be a contradiction to something I've said?> while the knight was predominantly a cavalrymanDepends on time and place. English fought mainly on foot, many battles most fought on foot.>But I guess you were never one to let trifles like the truth get in the way of fanboy wank-offs?You may have nothing of value to say but just go on irrelevant wanker neckbeard passive aggressive akchuallyism tangents (probably in an effort to feel clever to make up for how much of a loser you are), but it would be a lot less cringe if you at least tried to communicate with some decency.>Armour not protecting you from concussive effects is complete nonsense.Armour does not protect you from concussion.> For your head the sheer mass of the helmet adds to the mass of your headThat's not how physics work>so the impulse from the blow doesn't give it as much speed.Word salad babble.I'm going to get a baseball bat, and you put on a medieval helmet (if it fits around your fat neckbeard head) and I'll smack you around the head with the bat, and you let me know.Can't be bothered to read any more of your akchually wank babble
>>62060295This one in specific was purpose built for the "foot combat" part of the tournament, just two dudes in armor beating the shit out of each other, so the uncomfortable buttplate which made riding a horse impractical didn't matter too much.
This is a fictional set, but many suits would've been brightly painted when they were in use
i had all $2600 of armor i bought stolen from me by US customs
>>62059108spears and swords by far were the most common weapon, even for knights, theres overwhelming proof of it in the hundreds of manuscripts that show legions of men at arms handling only spears and swordsi'm not trying to put down the capability of the pole axe, but the spear is quite a bit more dynamic as a weapon than you'd think
>>62063632Should have petitioned the local lord to flog the rogues, no nobleman worth the title would tolerate such knavery.
>>62063680honestlyits pretty fucking hilarious how absolutely corrupt our legal system is compared to back thenlaws used to be reasonable in medieval times and they would always be made with the plantiffs/victims of a crime in mind, and they wouldn't pull shady things like fining and jailing a criminal who owes restitution to someone before they had the chance to pay them that restitutionand taxes were a whole lot betteri bet if a lord tried to impose the taxes we have today on their people they would be hated enough even by neighboring lords enough to cause them to get overthrown by a new lord
>>62063632That is absolutely fucked, anon. What's the story? Did you buy something abroad or were you importing your collection?
>>62063696it was all custom made, i was gonna use it for reenacting and harnischfechtenbut this was all more than half a year ago, i've moved on at this pointif i somehow miraculously get my money back from the armorer after complete silence for months then i'm building a 3 inch field rifle instead
>>62063691The main thing is the overall quality of life was so low that relatively mild increases in taxation were legitimate reason to kill someone over. We live in such opulent times that the state can levy fairly astonishing taxes from a historical perspective and all that happens is we grumble and buy fewer luxuries. Our legal system is frustrating, but you have to remember that theirs was equally as exasperating to them. In 17th century Germany a lawyer was one of the most common professions because everybody at every layer of society was in legal disputes with each other. Society was vastly different, and the law was vastly different as a consequence.
>>62063718>The main thing is the overall quality of life was so lowstatements like these are parroted all the time based entirely off of conjectureserfs represented a very small fraction of the (non slavic) european population in the 14th and 15th centuries (<5%)the period was a renaissance of quality of life that lasted until the 30 years war when rulers started becoming tyrants again, at which point i fully believe the quality of life dropped to pre-black death levels, in spite of the new technologyyour 17th century example is exactly what i meansociety standards regressed, not improved
>>62063744also, modern tax systems were introduced in the period following the 30 years war, so to say that low quality of life was a factor of having low taxes is wrong
>>62063708I'm sorry to hear it. I'd lose my fucking mind if customs confiscated something I'd bought.
>>62063744It isn't even "all peasants were serfs"it was "every single human being, even nobility" lived far harsher lives than modern humans do. And that analysis isn't really accurate in all honesty. Overall quality of life outside of during major pandemics is going to be fairly comparable from the end of the high medieval to the start of the early modern period. What you're talking about is the birth of the absolute monarchy made possible by the centralization of the 16th century. For the average person technology just hadn't changed enough to really make their lives that much different until you get to the 18th century and the dawn of mechanization. Work was still terribly hard, disease was still rampant, war still common and in such a way that it invaded every aspect of life when it broke out.
>>62060574>but many suits would've been brightly painted when they were in useis there anyway to read about this. i love the idea
>>62060301Define a men-at-arms for us pleaseThe majority of armies were in fact semi professional at least, especially in the high and late middle agesThe English didn't fight mainly on foot, and the particular battles they did, they did both
Awesome Plate of the Stars is hands down the best armor for any enterprising warrior, although Awesome Plate of Harmony or the Mammoth isn't a bad fit either.The big question though is King's Sword of Haste or Civerb's Cudgle. Obviously either way a King's Sword of Vampires for switching is nice so you can cast healing, teleport, and fire walls, golems, etc.
Shameless plug for the Styrian Armory. It would be shilling if I ever saw a shilling for my efforts.
>>62058781Ok, why are the rings split?
>>62060574Assuming you didn't just put a tabard over it. >>62064582Try looking into books on Heraldry. Your Heraldry was a kind of personal logo, a way of identifying you from a distance. It's only natural that your armor would match your Heraldry.
>>62065349Helps with assembly. Think of them like keyrings, split the ring, thread it into the next ring, and rotate the first until they're connected.
>>62065409Neato
>>62064582It's tricky to find a comprehensive source, i'll look around for one
>>62054791the most kino of armors, the frog helmet is unmatched
>>62066843Gotta give medieval armorers credit. They not only made the armor tougher but also more ornate. Not bad for corrugated steel.
>>62045899With armor like this it makes me wonder why armor technology took a step backward for so long. Chainmail takes a lot of effort to make, and even if metallurgy hadn't caught up yet, the concept of things like brigandine shouldn't have just evaporated, right? Dark ages helmets were made by riveting several large plates of metal together, so clearly they could've done the same to create more solid torso armor.So why is it that you had knights in the dark ages and earlier middle ages entirely clad in chainmail and a helmet, when they had the technology to make brigandines or even plate armor?A guy armored like this >>62045849 could be wearing a brigandine, ditch the chain covering much of his torso, and keep his limbs and neck guarded by chain and he'd have superior protection. I know that the shield is meant to provide much of the torso protection for a warrior, but isn't chain like this easily penetrated by an arrow from a war bow or a good stab from a weapon with a narrow enough point?
>>62045761You gotta wonder who that man was, what he died fighting for. You can't help but feel solemn seeing the bones of dead fighting men still in the equipment they died in.
>>62051248Depending on the time period (1300+), guns. Or some other animal that scares/distracts them
>>62067089If that is where I think it is, we kind of know who he was and what he was fighting for: he most likely was a yeoman farmer part a contryside militia from the Island of Gotland who fought at the Battle of Visby and got slaughtered by the much superior and professional army of the king of Denmark who invaded the Island in 1361 because of reasons.For some reason, many of the butchered militia were buired still with their stuff on them, which later in our times would bless us with a valuble hoard artificats including a number of valuable coats of plates
>>62066903the big thing was to provide some added strength with ribs as well as make it more likely for blunt weapons to glance off without transmitting all their force
>>62067040The big things are>Time/effort investment in every component>Quality control for each component>Availability of materials and fuelHelmets are THE most important part of armor. To the point where if you have to pick which part of your body to leave bare, the head is never going to be it. They had the most time and the most material invested in them by surface area in comparison to most other parts. Brigandine never evaporated, people still knew how to do it in theory, what happened was. >You have to have more iron available for every plate>If you fuck up the heat treatment of the forging way more of the armor is compromised>You have to use more fuel for each plate >Once you've got all the plates riveting them together takes a lot more skill to make them fit rightMail only required little bits of iron, scrap iron could be easily turned into mail rings more easily than full plates, and you could just make a one-size fits all piece of armor and hold it up with a belt.
>>62067040casting bronze is much easier than drawing out an iron or steel billet
>>62067213If that's the case, then it's almost like he was one of standing up against the feds. Much respect to him then.
>>62067760>Mail only required little bits of iron, scrap iron could be easily turned into mail rings more easily than full plates, and you could just make a one-size fits all piece of armor and hold it up with a belt.Doesn't this mean chainmail would be universally softer than plate or lamellar?
>>62045869do a better one then, m'sir
>>62067040Chainmail is breathable, comfortable and very long-lasting. Sure it aint shit compared to plate and brigandine but it's much better than nothing at all. The Ottomans used it a lot throughout the age of gunpowder and they were very successful.
>>62045869Could be worse. Could be Butted mail.
>>62068221Nta>Doesn't this mean chainmail would be universally softer than plate or lamellar?If you mean softer in the sense of flexibility then of course compared to mail and some lamellars mail is more flexible. The rings themselves could vary from iron to heat treated steel just like plate
>>62068286During the Age of Gunpowder the Ottoman Empire became known as the Sick Old Man of Europe and constantly lost territory. Later testing found that chainmail against bullets is worse than nothing against bullets. The supersonic round not only pierces through the rings but drags them deep into the body.
>>62068354>During the Age of Gunpowder the Ottoman Empire became known as the Sick Old Man of Europe and constantly lost territory.18th century is way past the beginning of the age of gunpowder, it's facetious to pretend that 15th, 16th and 17th centuries didn't exist.
>>62055344Armstreet makes some decent ones. You can get cheaper Chinese crap off of eBay.
>>62045915>>62045991>>62045903Don't care for the religious tones, but I know good art when I see it. This looks great!
>>62069033I grant you the Ottomon Empire was doing alright in the 15th century but the 16th started to show stagnation and the 17th it was beginning to decline. This coincides with the Europeans adopting firearms over pikes and lances. In the 18th century we see pikes being abandoned altogether in favor of firearms and this is where the Ottomans basically fall apart with loss after loss.In short, we can see that the Ottomon's use of chainmail backfired spectacularly in the face of more and more common firearms.
>>62069446>but the 16th started to show stagnationstagnation means that they were still at their peak, and the decline was fairly slow.>This coincides with the Europeans adopting firearms over pikes and lances.The decline of the ottomans was largely internal, economic, political and so on rather than military one, and hardly related to the European proliferation of guns that usually outpaced ottomans' own regardless. >Ottomon's use of chainmail backfired spectacularly in the face of more and more common firearms.What a retarded statement.
>>62059953>>62059979>>62059987>>62059998>>62060006keep your AI slop out of my damn armor threads
>>62070123Fucking retard, those are catacomb saints, use google for once in your worthless life.
>>62070123Oh those aren't AI. They're skeletons that medieval Christians thought were possibly martyrs, so they made it a project of love to venerate them by donating gold, jewels, and silks to adorn them in a way that might reflect a fraction of their glory in heaven. Whatever you might think of that practice they're honestly rare works of art and history worth preserving, same as Egyptian mummies.
amazing thread
>>62045862would be hard to get through that thick armor with javelins but it would still be vulnerable to caltrops, javelins to the legs and the riders getting killed
requesting bascinets, preferably with a SCHNOZZ
>>62045761Someone post late western roman Armor
birb
>>62072984The only distinctive armour from previous centuries would be helmets; though there isn't really a difference between east and west
>>62045761Clearly didn’t save that guy cause he’s a skull
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>>62069586Regardless, the Ottomans were technologically stagnant and we can not consider them a good advocate for chainmail in a world of gunpowder.
Some pictures from the Imperial Castle in NurembergHere a set of maximilian armour
Cuirasses and a Pavese
>>62073836Why did they go for those fucking feet? Purely fashion getting out of hand?
>>62073850Fashion. They were derived from the Poulaine style of shoes.
>>62047404>>62047410this is actualy anhistorical, no image of a crupellarius exists, a small figure was found, it was quite vague, someone reconstructed it to look like this and then said that it was a crupellarius despite the figure not saying that it was a crupellarius
>>62073850>>62073883they are also usualy detachable for obvious reasons
>>62066053where's the top half?
>>62054844What's the point of protecting the back of the horse's neck instead of the front?
>>62074869its jousting armour so they ould be aiming to hit the man, and they dont want the lance splintering and entering the back of the horses neck, they wouldnt aim at the horses front
>>62074869Depends on the style of barding.
But ultimatey: when a horse is charging at you, much of the lower neck is covered by the chanfron (the part that covers the head). The crinet (the armor on the "upper neck" is there to proctect the horses neck in close melee against another mounted foe.
It isn't the highest quality scan but it's pretty much the only possible way I got my hands on the material, heres a random illustration from 'Armies of Feudal Europe 1066-1300 by Ian Heath'60 - Danish Knight, late 13th c.61 - Scandinavian Hirdman, 13th c.62 - Scandinavian Militia, late 12th c.
>>62067213>because of reasons.Taxes son. Nobody dip out on big daddy Skattevæsen.
>>62074869If you're going to be chopping at a mounted opponent, you're more likely to use downward swings than upward ones.
>>62051248How about an armoured mouse?
>>62083721the proportions on this one are really gorgeous
>>62045761I've often wondered how many armored men different field cannons could actually penetrate through the chest. Obviously the exact cannon and the exact armor makes a big difference, but I suspect it's less than people imagine (in that people imagine it's like fifty)
>>62051248dig a trench
>>62047334>that shark tooth sword thingstealing this shit for my campaign, thanks
>>62067170I wonder what size gun you would need to lethally penetrate an armored elephant. Velocity was very low with early powders, after all.
>>62067040chainmall+gambesson is goated
>>62056336What's the skirt for?
>>62085802The skirt is called either 'bases' or a 'tonlet'. Originally it was just a way to style the armor after the cloth skirt that covered the upper leg armor, which was also called 'bases', but it developed into a style developed for ease of motion in foot combat. It's really hard to hit someone's inner thigh or groin if they've just covered themselves to the knee with a big metal skirt. This one however is a little out of the ordinary, it's what's called a "Grotesque" armor, which is basically just a decorative set meant to show off an armorer's skill and a nobleman's wallet. Stiffer plate bases/tonlets had removable cutouts shaped so you could get on the back of a horse in your armor, though it was awkward no matter what. You can see the round cutout in the Duke Albert armor in the pic.
>>62058725They paint it on after for plates that saved lives and then sell them to raise money.
>>62067089they just put a coif on some skeleton they pulled out of a church cellar for a museum piece
>>62051248You outmaneuver them and cut the hind legs with your sword, hamstringing them and letting them bleed out.Or You cut off their trunk and let them bleed out.OrYou don't even engage them, but clear the land around the army of fodder, forcing them to turn the elephants into rations.
>>62050691I heard soldiers usually abandoned them due to the weight of mockery from fellow soldiers.Also some were so poorly made that they actually lowered your chances of survival.
>>62055601Are those articulated breastplates? Pretty cool, haven't seen them before.
>>62058963>>62058958Superb, would have been quite a sight in its day.
>>62087269Looks like the Graz arsenal. Its the biggest collection of 15th to 19th century arms and armor in Europe. Its only about 200km away from me but I dont have the time to go see it but I want to.
>>62087107I'd much rather be mocked than receive new and exciting additional orifices.
>>62051617Wish I had doors like this on my house.
>>62063708Why the fuck would customs confiscate armor? Did they send you an explanation letter? An offer to pay import tax?What country do you live in?
>>62067213>some dickhead is invading my home>get the lads together because I haven't paid taxes in my life and the IRS isn't going to make me start now>put on our best gear (Sven made it for a bushel of apples)>finally get to the battle>dickhead's guys look so much better armed than us>whatever, can't pay taxes if I'm dead>get our shit thoroughly rocked>buried with full honors in our armor for fighting so valiantly>some 700 years later some other dickhead digs us up and puts us on display>at least my coif looks cool as fuck on my toothless skull
>>62063718They look so wee, like the Hobbits during the Scouring of the Shire
>>62090775the models are lifesized, due to the devastation of the 30 years war the average german only grew to about six inches tall
>>62087269Yeah, it is called anime armor (fuck people who write it anima)
