What ancient-to-medieval armour was the most evil looking?

wtf

Talk about nightmare fuel.

inb4 some smartass points out that 16th century armor used the most metal.

lol

Blacksmiths were still working out the kinks in armor production in the early bronze age.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Army_of_Hungary#/media/File:Knight_of_black_army.png

lol this pic is such an extreme generalization

>Hungary cuts taxes by 80%
>they have to disband the army
>less than a half century later they are literal slaves of the Ottomans all because they wanted more "economic freedom"

why does anyone take libertarianism seriously?

whatever the frog wore

Yeah holy shit, greece to rome to iberian(?) to norman...

dude it wasn't real capitalism lmao

Great helms weren't work while fighting, but during the charge to protect against projectiles. They would wear a bascinet underneath and ditch the great helm once they got in combat

Did someone trigger you or something?

Looks like one of those mycenaean panoplies

>inb4 some smartass points out that 16th century armor used the most metal.
>not15th
the 16th century guy only has a cuirass and helmet, pseud.

Blackened gothic armor looks pretty badass. I don't know how historically accurate these are though, these are just reproductions.

Batman?

Bane?

1500s is the sixteenth century u mongloid not the 1600s.

Minimal armor. They either are really good at fighting and require little or are savage enough to not fear death

WITH MY SPEAR AND MAGIC HELMET!

Bronze age EOD specialist, wear big armour, poke it with a stick

Probably scared the shit outta the opposing peasant levies when they showed up cresting the ridgeline.

SHOO SHOO SEA PEOPLE

i'm sure this was actually a pretty significant aspect of why it would be worn

dismounted cataphracts

>15=16

Retard detected

>why does anyone take libertarianism seriously?
Hardly anybody does. They're like, less than 1% of all right-wingers. In the carnival that is Big-tent conservatism, they're the freak show.

Sometimes conventional right-wingers have dalliances with libertarianism, but when the next big right-wing fad comes along, they'll go back to being useful idiots among the yuppie class while all the grown up conservatives focus on their core demographics of religious voters and people in government uniforms.

I'd say a little bit of both user

What about the time between 0-100 AD?
Checkmate

0

It's the zeroth century, bruh

I'M FUCKING INVINCIBLE

> current year
> thinking developed nations are going to go to war with each other

i mean i know historically dismounted cataphracts were a real thing across multiple cultures but it is still so damn strange to think about. also on that topic (sorta), I'm surprised that the West didn't really take to the cataphract style of heavy cavalry much, what's up with that? am I overestimating how tactically useful cataphract style cavalry would have been in ancient/medieval armies? it seems really really useful in certain crucial scenarios in battle to potentially drastically reduce casualties when charging

Roman Arcani

>slaves
>not valued citizens

Not even High School level.

>Praetorians

Heavy armored cavalry or infantry only develops if the economic situation is correct, like feudal landlords amassing lots of wealth

Dark ages Europe couldn't do that.

Yes dark ages, 500-1000 you faggots.

bronze age was some mad max shit

What makes iron superior to bronze?

It's cheaper

Iron is stronger.

I remember mattys interviewing the guy from the armor collection, and at some point he says black armor were quite common in some period

Dope

For you?

That's not how that works bud...

Didn't Rome and Byzantium have them?

What about them?

I think he was being sarcastic guys

As if.
Iron is much more brittle than bronze. The only benefits pure iron has against bronze is that it stays sharper longer and that it's cheaper (as already pointed out). That's why bronze weapons only dropped out of use after steel, which is superior to both, was invented.

While and are both true, they forgot the fact that because it's a simpler process, you're less subject to economic disruptions. Part of the bronze age collapse had to do with disruptions in tin mining.

>tfw nilgaardian knights genocide your village for the 10th time that year

>"no."
Steel certainly is far superior to bronze in just about every way, but the only real edge that plain old iron has (aside from being a little lighter) is that it's far, far more common. Bronze is an alloy of tin and copper, which are almost never found in the same place, while iron needs no other mineral and can be found all over the place.

>2 swords

The Dimachaerus did that, they were a kind of gladiator than fought without shield and two swords.

Ditch it where? Did They just drop it on the ground, or hook on their saddle?

When I'm reading the Iliad and it says things like Achilles' armour was so encompassing that nobody'd be able to tell it was Patroclus wearing it, is this the shit I should've been picturing?

well, you'd also have a hard time telling who it is under a greek helmet, but yes.
This is also why people like Achilles and Hector used chariots. Big heavy armour.

This shit

Where is this from? It makes me think of that weird Mexican la Muerte stuff.

german ritter savoyard helmet

I was just trying to find a pic of this. The absolute GOAT

Most depictions show them hanging by straps while in a fight, so either makes sense

Black armor was common in the 16th and 17th century because the armored warriors of that period didn't have retinues of servants to polish it. Its blackened to prevent rust.

This

I don't know what's shitter about that picture: the history or the art. Why the fuck would you post some lame shit like that?

They were a novelty gladiator, not particularly common

Gladiators were an investment which their pit bosses would have been loath to send hundreds of miles away to go die in a field. At the most, the army would use them to train legionaries in swordsmanship. 1v1 is totally different beast from a pitched melee

underrated

Hahahahaha my man

Psychological effect. Very important if you want to break open a spear wall.

30 years war?

some of the stylized samurai masks are pretty spooky

Iron is more plentiful. Bronze requires copper and tin together or long trade routes.
Iron can be sharpened. Last I read, if your bronze sword was blunt, you had to recast the damn thing.

However, Iron is prone to rust. Bronze is not.
Bronze can be cast. Iron cannot.
Bronze looks nice.

Take what I am saying with a grain of salt because I am likely mistaken.

was Stalin a right-winger user? because he was in some ways very conservative an as authoritarian as the very nazis.

>hey titus, why does mom let you have TWO swords?

By the 1930's the entire socialist/communist movement had been taken over by ultra-nationalists posing as leftists, both in Germany and in Russia.

So Stalinism can be considered as "left fascism" because I seen many lefties said nationalism is related to "Idpol" therefore national identity is reactionary and fascist.

That's some prop armor for a Chink movie, idiot.

>calls others pseuds
>doesn't know how dates work

Pottery.

ANGER

Black armour was around but probably not THAT black. This is a chemical process that uses modern materials to stain the metal. You can heat treat metal to make it blue and there are ways of leaving it black from the forge and then polishing and waxing it, but it's not quite the same. The guy who brought Toby Capwell's famous black English armour had it polished up to plain, white steel again because such a finish isn't authentic.

My sides

Or they're just broke

**THROAT SINGING INTENSIFIES**

Holy shit

You have a point there

buh dum tss

stronger, lighter, more abundant, easier to maintain, literaly everything.

>spear and magic helmet

Ayyy

Dimachaerus were a thing user, also not farfetched that some dude praetorian knew how to fight with two swords

Hey, I remember that guy

*glorp*