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Arms and Armor Thread
Angel Cook
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Xavier Diaz
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Jace Campbell
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Ian Watson
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Brayden Morales
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Angel Hill
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Jordan Mitchell
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Liam Ward
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Carson James
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Angel Diaz
I've seen Chinese jians with long thin blades, haven't seen many with shorter wider ones that could cut a bit better.
Christian Cooper
Interestingly, the Chinese did have mail armour, and it was a bit more common during the Ming Dynasty.
Jonathan Anderson
More Chinese mail armour
Thomas Baker
Is there any point to the blade widening at the tip?
Angel Ward
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Luis Reyes
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Elijah Gray
These are fucking hideous
Joseph Cook
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Jose Parker
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Daniel Allen
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Xavier Perez
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Ryder Gonzalez
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Lincoln Cook
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Jayden Williams
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Hunter Ward
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Caleb Morgan
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Easton Sanders
See that's what I don't get about people claiming the bat'leth is impractical in real situations.
They're right, but the bat'leth seems more like an "honourable" dueling weapon like those shields. It's not meant for pitched warfare.
Also more Chinese armour.
William Wright
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Matthew Jackson
>See that's what I don't get about people claiming the bat'leth is impractical in real situations.
the dueling shield is impractical in real situations. It's made to be impractical. That's a judicial duel.
Also the bat'leth was also made impractical by the klingons so only who are top pros can use it effectively.
Jaxon Hughes
another picture of the less commonly seen chinese mail
Isaac Clark
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Justin Bell
>the dueling shield is impractical in real situations. It's made to be impractical. That's a judicial duel.
Yeah that was my point, the bat'leth is basically the Klingon version of the dueling shield
>Also the bat'leth was also made impractical by the klingons so only who are top pros can use it effectively.
Yeah, fuck those peasants.
Also, a very heavy Chinese armour called "Iron Pagoda." Guess why?
Bentley Thomas
a reconstruction of the armour
Mason Hernandez
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Justin Torres
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Christopher Kelly
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Michael Price
Qing dynasty art of mail armour
Jordan Anderson
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Connor Lee
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Jayden Jenkins
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Austin Williams
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Jeremiah Rogers
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Nathaniel Howard
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Matthew Martinez
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Eli Hall
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David Hughes
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Alexander Peterson
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Jack Russell
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Brayden Allen
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Evan Evans
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Luis Morgan
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Jack Lee
I still can't believe this is an actual helmet.
Christopher Nguyen
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Jordan Scott
Does anyone has more info or images of this "double bow"? Just found out about it.
Nathan Brown
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Jace Foster
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William Rivera
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Brody Ross
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Josiah Wood
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Jeremiah Wilson
For jousting, if I recall correctly?
Hunter Martinez
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Nicholas Morales
Dueling shields were basically instruments to translate god's judgement into the duel with more fidelity by equally hobbling both participants.
The Klingons didn't care for equality between peers or god's judgement becoming manifest through ritual actions, I think, and their version of honour is basically the anything goes japanese civil war era period one.
Kayden Garcia
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Carter Cruz
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Isaiah Green
yep. Most of the "can't see shit" helmets are for jousting
Jace Butler
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Luke Edwards
see that bomb in the cage?
it was naughty. Had to be taught a lesson.
Xavier Diaz
kickass
Luis Johnson
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Camden Wilson
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Liam Phillips
yeah it kind of reminds me of Siegmeyer
Parker Campbell
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Noah James
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Camden Martin
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Nathaniel Garcia
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Ian Collins
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Christian Hughes
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Xavier Reed
>are you a knight or a dragon
>yes
Samuel Harris
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Jack Bennett
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Ian Lewis
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Gabriel Moore
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Juan Bennett
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Levi Cook
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Jonathan Bennett
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Jose Bailey
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Lincoln Wright
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Hudson Nelson
>Interestingly, the Chinese did have mail armour, and it was a bit more common during the Ming Dynasty.
I believe the Tang were the first to treat mail as something more than an exotic foreign import. There are even some theories that "mountain pattern" scale is actually an artistic rendition of mail.
This is fake.
Ryan Harris
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The Mrang Hwa Jiu Gjyi (猛火油櫃) or the Fierce-Fire Oil Tank was the ancient Chinese double-piston pump flamethrower used during Sung Dynasty. The double-piston pump flamethrower comprised of a rectangular container and a brass tube on top of the container. The soldier would pull the piston back and forth to spray a continuous stream of flame. The piston-bellows inside the container would pump the flammable liquid up to the brass tube where a gunpowder spark would ignite the liquid before sending it to the enemy. The container was probably filled with something like petrol or naphtha. The Sung Dynasty soldiers would probably put these flamethrowers on top of city walls so that they could use the flamethrowers to repel enemy sieges.
Luke Baker
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Nicholas Butler
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Carter Jones
yeah I thought it looked a little weird but it looked cool so I posted it.
Owen Barnes
It took many a year before the Chinese figured out the spikes should be inside the casing of bombs
Samuel Hernandez
The Osprey series are a poor source of information for Ming armaments.
Mason Jackson
I just used Google, don't know where these are from most of the time.
Christian Williams
I don't know what the heck this is for though.
Cooper Long
the chinese got weird with half their shit
William Young
Mobile observation tower. The rope is that you can let the observation dudes down again.
Julian Cox
Isn't this just a siege tower?
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Jack Gutierrez
just looks really funky to me
Asher Lopez
the chinese and the indians are usually like Oglaf dwarfs when it comes to inventing weapons