Post arms and armor you like and discuss them. more realistic or more fantasy, your choice.I have always been a fan of the late medieval Targe. a smaller sheild worn on the upper arm usually by a fully armored man. gives a nice sense of asymmetry to the silhouette and I bet it is nice additional protection on a place you will likely be hit the most without getting too much in the way.
>>98783735Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you the barbute helmet—the most popular helmet in fantasy.
>>98783859and its variant with a visor
>>98783859>>98783864I love the barbute
>>98783859I always thought it was a bit ugly without the visor.
>>98783885even with the visor
>>98783811THe gold trim with the vine patterns look relly neat on this helmet.
>>98783916most of the high grade armors have a shitton of little intricate patterns on them that can be only seen from up close. Especially after etching came into the picture (and some advancements in woodcuts and the printing press)
>>98783842Petite feet, feminine step
>>98783944
This is a pretty neat piece of Mughal barding.
Elephant armour.
Ottoman mirror armour.
People tend to forget how armor developed and how the more modern armors basically made the predecessors obsolete.
Another elephant armour. I think this is missing the plates that should protect the mahout.
Reconstruction of a Tibetan horse barding.the plates protecting the neck are pretty unusual, you don't really see them elsewhere.
Another horse armour and plated mails from the subcontinent.
Golden horde and Muscovite armour. I think these are reconstructions from the Kulikovo battle museum.
>>98784041that's a gross oversimplification. chainmail for example in various forms existed well with full plates and whatnot, even into the late 16th century
>>98784043Plenty of bullshit in that one I'm afraid.
>>98784070Yeah, I think the majority of Sobieskis army in 1683 consisted of guys with kit like this.
Here are some pictures of eastern armour that were on display in Bobolice castle in Poland.
>>98784077I always find it funny that in the pic the morion and the kettle hat has no meaningful connection whatsoever. Then again I have to admit Bashford Dean did a shitton of useful stuff but in hindisght he wasn't always right. But that's how history works
>>98784099 That one was Turkish, but the pauldrons looked like they weren't a part of the original kit. This one is Indo-Persian.
>>98784099that's a sorry ass display, let alon the armor. Kinda sure that the upper arm / should and the """gorget""" is from current day India or Iran though and the rest is very suspect too.
>>98784113Here's a hussar armour that was also on display.
>>98784113>>98784122I guess the main attraction of that castle isn't the armor display because man, they did a very bad job on puttin those on a stand. I mean I've seen stuff that are way worse but it's always sad to see stuff just randomly thrown into the corner with the "good enough" mindset
>>98784146I'm also bad at taking pictures, so that might have also made them look worse. It's not as impressive as the army museum in Warsaw for sure.
>>98784180It's not even about the lighting or focus or whatever. It's the posture of the armor, how it doesn't resemble at all how it would look like if someone was actually wearing it, or sometimes the attachemnts are off / sliding down / etc. it's just thrown there and that's it. Sadly that's the case in a lot of castles and whatnots, so it isn't surprising or unexpected. Just sad.
Nice pictures. Nice. Nice.>Friend thinking about doing some DND>Sperg out about knightly combat>Friend visibly put off by my excitement and says "It wont be that kind of game."Born to love bascinets, forced to wear a bicycle helmet.
Greatest helmet ever designed
>>98784856>You're already dead
>>98784041I really wonder why 16th century armored are not talked about as much when they are the literal peak of full body protection. People seem over focused on 15th century. maybe because it feels more quintesentially medieval and the english had more involvement with things like the late 100 years war. But the sort of armors worn in renassance era Italian Wars by french gendarmes or italians, or SPanish are amazing! You still have massive heavy cavalry charges mixed in with pikes and they were effective too if employed well.Burgonets also are just underrated. really cool design and functional.
>>98790136I mean, maybe the people YOU know don't talk much about 16th century stuff, but others....
>>98790136It looks like the full breastplate is telescopable. neat.
>>98783913Dope
>>98800328
I like bronze and iron age stuff.
>>98783735>Nice additional protection Eh. I stopped wearing a shield as my plate is more than enough protection and I don't want the added hassle. They do look fucking good though. I own 14th century plate, which I larp/work out/fuck around in. I've been in everything from duels to battles with 1k+ combatants, AMA if you've got armor questions.
>>98784113bobba!
>>98801289What's the longest time you've spent wearing it in one go while actively doing stuff and did it get annoying/hot/stuffy to wear at some point
>>9880135410 or 12 hours, and no. I train pretty frequently and don't wear excessive padding, so as long as everything is out on correctly, it's only annoying if I try to sit in a chair or on the ground, and that is because my cuisses wrap around and make it impossible to sit right. Stools are a good send. If shit is on wrong it'll be annoying, but I won't even notice if I'm fighting.
>>98783847Aesthetic
Brined cotton and obsidian.
>>98808832>Brined Please don't eat that.
>>98794868>It looks like the full breastplate is telescopableIt's called anime armor, and the lower sections are made so that they can slide over each otherAlso>Arms and Armor ThreadWhat year is this?.jpg
>>98784041>>98784043Bashford Dean strikes again
A lot of them didn't have armor and a lot of them used just breastplates, but yes, chainmail was used in the east pretty much until multi-shot firearms took off and in more remote places like Caucasus you could see chainmail in use up until 20th century.
>>98817531was meant as a reply to >>98784084I think it's quite interesting that you can see pretty much the same chainmail style persisting in Eastern Europe for a thousand years.
>>98817531>until 20th centuryChainmail is still used now.
>>98784065I don't know what happened but now I find this style of armour so cool looking.
>>98818034That's for cops going up against immigrants, though, not on the battlefield.
>>98790136because 15th century waistline > 16th century "waistline"
>>98801039for u
>>98818069It's apparently quite good if you're doing breaching through windows or those shitty plastic doors that fracture rather than buckle.Prevents you getting cut up going through.I could see a military use there
>>98817562as always it's India that went with batshit crazy with chainmail (and china too, to some extent)>>98818069how about some other battlefield uses of "chain"?
>>98817436whats that made of?ivory?
>>98820325steel and bone.
>>98817531I know a Boomer who spent his 20s bumming around the Near East. He encountered Tauregs in chain and sword like that pic, says it was straight out of the Crusades.
>>98783735
>>98783735good thread
