How do you like your armours Veeky Forums?

>Grand Duelist of the Order of the Merciful Blade
>While in the Order headquarters, armor is embellished with lots of bling, etchings and ornate silverwork.
>Assassins of the Hidden Hand Temple ambush him in his office, convinced that his ceremonial armor is useless in combat.
>They're right.
>Grand Duelist sighs, then loosens a buckle from his shoulder.
>As the buckle comes loose, fur cape falls off, ornamentations clatter to the ground, pauldron decorations slide off his shoulders.
>Stepping over the fallen decorations, a man in a sleek suit of armor draws his sword.
>"Good morning, gentlemen."
>It's evening.

Both is good

Skimpy.

Depends on the setting and the character.

With a lot of practice. The craziest part is that the number of flaws in these period sets of armor suggests that smiths almost never threw out pieces they messed up on, they just made it work and shipped it out. Which means that the set that you're seeing was probably made all in one go, with no do-overs.

When I was young I was really into the ludicrous details of royal and ceremonial armor.

But with every year that passes I fall more in love with the plain and mundane. The simple mass produced armor meant not to show off but to keep you alive on the field.

Just thinking about how many hundred of smiths were employed to field a whole army's worth of armor made precisely for its cost-effectiveness makes my heart go doki doki.

>ambush a Grand Duelist
>he is in full armor
>he has time to sigh
>he has time to unbuckle a button
>he has time to step out of the mess of his decorations

might as well fight him with the decorations on because that assassin is shit-tier

Pardon the phone picture

Shit. Fuck phones.

Whenever I see this I always wonder what the fuck was wrong with those historians who scrapped paint off armor?

Also, does anyone know if other cultures painted their armor? Did the Greeks and Romans? Did the Mongols?

"""historians"""

Fair enough. Amend to "those slack-jawed halfwits who liked to wipe their dicks on ancient artifacts".

We call them collectors, they were cancer back then just like now, just in different ways.

I like them when they vary between settings and when there's more than one style available.

I always wonder what the thought process behind such armor is.
>I worked hard on my beach body so I have to show off my flat tummy, but I can't risk getting hit in the baby maker so I'd better cover that with some metal

In this case it was probably more like "I need people to pay me more for making baby same-faces on the same body, what if I draw them with bikini armour instead of regular bikinis" and then he kept getting paid for his shit art.

But it's not "shit art", it's body-positive feminist art.

In the line of wacky but practical enough to be used.

No, I'm pretty sure he just draws mostly-naked anime girls.

Patrician taste.

>I'm pretty sure he just draws strong, independent womyn who don't conform to patriarchal, prudish values

I thought the patriarchy was ruled by sex obsessed Raping men, who can't control themselves at the mere sight of a woman's ankle?
:^)

Speaking of that, has anyone got any pictures of Granbretanians (Hawkmoon-books/RPG)

Also, thighs.

At least stuff like this makes more sense then stuff like

The diadochi states' militaries had alot of colours on their equipment, I'm talking painted helmets in garish colours and all that jazz.

Not really. The bikini babe is just posing with an unknown context. The second picture has a scantily dressed, helmetless girl in combat who's somehow better at staying alive than the dead man in the background, slain by two arrows to the chest.

>When I was young I was really into the ludicrous details of royal and ceremonial armor.
>But with every year that passes I fall more in love with the plain and mundane. The simple mass produced armor meant not to show off but to keep you alive on the field.
I'd rather wear a suit of royal plate than some mass produced junk for brigands and mercenaries.

Unlike that SHITE that the Italians shat out by the thousands in huge factory-smitheries, a handmade piece of Milanese plate would catch arrows, bolts and bullets, only giving way to cannon balls.

Mass production plate could even get you hurt with crossbow bolts if you got unlucky.

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>>plain and practical
>or
>>ludicrously detailed
what would be the in-between?

this

He is sighing because the Temple keeps using him as a 'novice reject disposal device.'

Oh look, they have the exact same pudgy faces and body proportions as every other girl he's ever drawn. But these wear lolegyptian jewelry so it's something new, right?

Practical with slight details to differentiate my pally from vanilla knight

Excessive detail leads to anime esque bullshit

Don't know for sure but they've discovered that a lot of greek/roman statues were painted after developing new methods of scanning the statues that have been recovered. I'd imagine that some armor had to be painted or gilded for ceremonial or ritualistic reasons.

Wells etching patterns is a specialist job. After the smiths, (yes, smiths armor like that are made by a commissioned group of artisans) they turn it over to the pattern makers and the etchers. Though decorative armors like that are mostly used for pomp, nobles that can afford it owns other sets of armor for combat.

You're well entitled to like thighs, but why must that love dictate the dress code at all times, including combat?

Couldn't a girl wear practical armor when she's fighting, then wear something that reveals her thighs (or whatever tickles your fancy) when it's not putting her life on the line?

I like a lot of unadorned, practical stuff. The style of chainmail is very cool to me, partly because it lacks the ornate detailing of later armor.

Well the problem with heavy armor is that it's impossible to tell what the fuck someone looks like under it.

No armor

Yes.

That could actually work if she was a horseback archer where only her upper torso would be exposed to arrowfire, but it's still a reach.

Looks gay

I was going for practicality, I'd bring a gun.
Ludicrously detailed, of course.

Why ride to battle not to die with style? If you can afford armour already, why stay colourless pleb.

I don't know how or why GW were able to use a picture of what is clearly Baron Meliadus for this book but there you go

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impractical but complete coverage is better

I imagine a lot of it was simply to say we're better than you to the enemy. Every lord is gonna want the snazziest looking army he can get.

Depends on who is wearing it.

I have grown to like "Realistic to Reasonable".