2017年8月18日 · For example, the technology for breastplate was there. The shoulder plates could be similar to Segmentata. And the arm protection can be like Manicae. Along with greaves, it can support near-full plate armor. Mail arming doublets could …

2010年8月3日 · Reading the Osprey Publishing series on the late Roman army was what made me play Medieval 2 once more - from Byzantine Cavalryman c. 900-1204:- In light of this, I was wondering to what extent plate armor (up to the point it ceased being completely practical because of gunpowder - i.e. say...

2013年3月21日 · The first step was adding plate defenses to the existing maille and gambeson, covering the torso. Thus the coat of plates, that went under the tabard and over the maille. As time went on, more plate was added, and more maille was omitted, because the plate offered better defense than the maille not just against the lance, but all weapons.

2015年9月22日 · It does make the drastic cost differences between utilitarian and display armor extremely clear—compare the £1 6s for a pistol-proofed cuirass with pauldrons from 1624, or the £14 2s 8d for a full suit of plate from 1667, to the £340(!) …

2008年4月7日 · Plate armor stops a thrust, but the thrust can still penetrate. Two different things. The plate armor limits the thrust to only an inch or two. With clothing and leather underneath, this means minimal to no injury. But a bullet is going to sale right through it. Plate armor isn't invincible. It gets beat to shit rather easy.

2018年12月6日 · You cannot make 0,8 - 1.5 mm thick effective armor plates from bronze. People often do not understand/do not know how thin actual plate armor is. Thickest parts could be like 2 mm in the helmet crest area and main ridge of the breastplate. It is also a reason why no such thing as munitions grade full plate harness actually existed.

2019年8月30日 · You might know about plate armor like the Gothic, Milanese, or Maximillian styles of armor that have inspired the trope of the Knight in Shining Armor. Gothic Suit of Plate Armor With Sallet. Note the Extensive Fluting. Milanese Suit Note the Asymmetric Pauldrons. The Gothic Armor Turned Up to Eleven, the Maximilian Style. What you may not know ...

2017年8月6日 · Plate armor going out of fashion really had more to do with the increased proliferation of guns making full, or even partial, armor increasingly not worth the cost. Mrbsct said: I believe Reinnissance infantry had Two handed swordsmen with full or partial plate armor.

2015年12月6日 · One Spartan Hoplite in full classical armor circa the Peloponnesian war (431-404 BC) versus one Roman Legionnaire in full kit circa Augustan Rome post unification (30 BC). Both opponents start roughly 100 meters away on an open field and have access to their usual ranged weaponry in addition to their standard fare, for the Roman this is likely ...

2012年5月14日 · This, really. Roman advantages boil down to volume and standardization. While I would hesitate to call them "factories", that implies concepts and cultural ideas that were not even a twinkling in man's eyes, Roman arms and armor tended to be produced by state controlled foundries en-masse even into the days of Heraklius.