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TheEvilDog:
--- Quote from: Jace on 18 Apr 2012, 19:29 ---Actually! Plate armor that is made to fit the wearer (as all plate armor of the period was) is not as heavy as one would think. It was generally 18-22g steel and had many arming points to relieve the weight.
Chainmail rests solely on the shoulders and generally a belt is worn to help mitigate the weight but plate often weighs less than chain.
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Not only that, but true plate armour weighs about a third less then the equipment carried by modern soldiers on their back. The modern interpretation of plate armour comes from Hollywood, where they would used Jousting armour, a type that was meant to be heavy and reinforced, as it was supposed to used for safety. Most of whom wore plate were trained to do so from childhood, meaning that they were gradually used to it, as opposed to people who wear nowadays who aren't necessarily used to it. And, there are books and reports of plate being highly mobile, with many knights able to run over significant distances, swim in full armour, as well as performing backflips from a height. (/armour nerd)
Carl-E:
--- Quote from: Elysiana on 23 Apr 2012, 13:27 ---I really don't like pics of myself, so here's a pic of something I made. She's 10 months old now! How the hell did that happen, guys?
(image of a ridiculously cute kid sitting in a stock pot)
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Hey, look! Elysiana made dinner!
When will she be done? I'm hungry... :angel:
Barmymoo:
What the heck, it is definitely only about twenty minutes since I was wondering whether you had given birth yet. How on earth is she so huge and so person-like?
Redball:
--- Quote from: Elysiana on 23 Apr 2012, 13:27 ---I really don't like pics of myself, so here's a pic of something I made. She's 10 months old now! How the hell did that happen, guys?
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I think I know what you mean. My also adorable formerly-10-month-old is now 38 1/2 -- years, not months. How the hell did that happen?
Jace:
--- Quote from: TheEvilDog on 23 Apr 2012, 13:42 ---
--- Quote from: Jace on 18 Apr 2012, 19:29 ---Actually! Plate armor that is made to fit the wearer (as all plate armor of the period was) is not as heavy as one would think. It was generally 18-22g steel and had many arming points to relieve the weight.
Chainmail rests solely on the shoulders and generally a belt is worn to help mitigate the weight but plate often weighs less than chain.
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Not only that, but true plate armour weighs about a third less then the equipment carried by modern soldiers on their back. The modern interpretation of plate armour comes from Hollywood, where they would used Jousting armour, a type that was meant to be heavy and reinforced, as it was supposed to used for safety. Most of whom wore plate were trained to do so from childhood, meaning that they were gradually used to it, as opposed to people who wear nowadays who aren't necessarily used to it. And, there are books and reports of plate being highly mobile, with many knights able to run over significant distances, swim in full armour, as well as performing backflips from a height. (/armour nerd)
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True that. My vambraces and cuisses are made with 18g and 16g steel respectively and they weigh basically nothing.
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