arms and armour thread!
/arms and armour/
Dylan Stewart
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Luis Hughes
these are great thank you
Benjamin Green
np.
Robert Turner
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Jordan Phillips
>2: Hey, you gonna eat that?
>1: Fuck off m8, rations mine
>3: My feet hurt. This armors heavy. I wish I was at home, combing my mustache. I wonder whats for dinner. Probably gruel again. I miss Babushka's cooking. Look at these fancy faggots with their fancy ass horses. I bet they've got servants to groom their horses and wipe their asses too. Or they would, if the horses anus wasn't a marvel of engineering.
Noah Hughes
Why does that dude have two swords?
Robert Martinez
The one in his hands actually looks like an estoc, or thrusting sword. The one in the sheath looks like an arming sword.
So it's for punching through maille
Owen Martin
each of them has both a larger 'fuck you' weapon and a shorter 'oh shit' secondary
Bentley Gray
not seen or depicted is the
"weapon for also eating with"
Gavin Cruz
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Bentley Hall
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Asher Hill
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Eli Davis
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Leo Young
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Angel Fisher
the fuck am I looking at here?
Jackson Gray
The Great a era stuff, anti shrapnell helmet and (probably improvised) trench weapon.
Jayden Hernandez
*Great War
Sorry, keyboard running out of batteries
Justin Murphy
*Great War
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Ethan Reyes
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Jeremiah Butler
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Henry Turner
What in the fuck am I even looking at here?
Matthew Myers
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Juan Nguyen
Now that I think about it, I think i'd love to run a fantasy campaign based around armors and armorsmithing. Any ideas on how to create a plot around this?
David James
Future my friend, future.
Jonathan Hughes
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David Nelson
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Wyatt Smith
sweet christ, that image is unsetteling
Christian Taylor
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Kevin Bailey
what sort of commie witchcraft is that ?
Blake Gonzalez
You fucking love smithing but faggots in that faggot town have started making better steel and selling it for cheaper and you won't stand for that. A game of negotiation, subterfuge and big burly men in dark alleys breaking each other's kneecaps with oak cudgels.
Ryan Hill
No codpeice no greaves? I get its half plate, but you may as well protect that half well!
Julian Campbell
For those interested, I've got a little museum pic dump is going on over at: "The rider himself should be equipped in this wise: /.../ He must have a dirk and two swords, one girded on and another hanging from the pommel of the saddle."
'The King's Mirror', a Norwegian mid 13th century educational text for the young nobleman.
mediumaevum.com
Backup seems likely.
Your crotch will be protected by a sturdy wooden saddle and a large warhorse. As uncomfortable as driving with a modern day cup is, adding a codpiece to cavalry armour may outright render you a casualty before the first day is over.
As for why they stopped using protection for the lower leg and foot, well, they did, and as they didn't quickly put the sabatons back on again I guess wounds to that region weren't terribly common even for cavalrymen. Sturdy boots might have helped as well?
Kevin Perry
>Sturdy boots might have helped as well?
maybe the stirrups had armor built onto the front of them? I've seen it in movies before but I don't know if it was a real practice.
Jose Wilson
I haven't seen a lot of stirrups form back then,. but a quick look at the few images of such I've saved from the Wallace collection (second half of the 16th century, so about the right time period) don't suggest anything like that, and the stirrups hanging off of Gustav II Adolf's stuffed horse in the Royal Armoury are just the regular bow and bar as well.