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I make medieval armor.

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Jace:
Actually usually Wednesday nights. I work weekends

GarandMarine:
I stand corrected.

Case:

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Awesome!  :-o

What is this type of plate armor called (that doesn't fully cover the inside of the arms)?  The round discs at the elbow joints - are they to protect the inside of the joint from a slash? And aren't the armpits protected? What weapon do you use? A sword? Two-handed? And ...
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Jace:
This would still be considered plate armor. I mostly do 14th century stuff, which is called the transitional period because they moved from mostly chain with only body armor at the beginning of the 1300s and then had nearly full plate kits (cased arms and legs) by 1400.

The part on the elbow is actually part of the elbow, its a fan/wing and essentially it would stop someone from slashing the inside of my elbow if I'm not wearing chain. In my game, it stops the sticks from hitting the inside of my elbow. Also traditionally I'd be wearing a chain shirt under or over my armor (except the body armor) but I am lazy about that because it is heavy. That would be what protects the armpits.

In melee fights I usually fight with a 6' polearm or spear, but in one-on-ones I fight with a short sword (about 24"-26" overall length) and a center grip heater shield.

Jace:
Oh well there was an event yesterday so here's a picture of me from it in my full kit. That isn't my final helmet we are getting the visor for it welded presently so it should be about a week before I can use it.

Here it was said that I was corkscrewing1 my opponent which is patently untrue as the photo shows I've just managed to get him almost dead to rights and planned on stepping in and bringing down the hate but the marshall stopped it and said I was corkscrewing him (which isn't against the rules but I guess is frowned upon).


As you can see, my armor moves pretty well on my arm, once I get out there and moving I generally don't even really notice that I have any armor on my arms. I actually lost this fight because I erroneously took a shot that landed at the top of my calf on the outside (shots below the knee are forbidden, it landed to where about 20% of the impact was absorbed by the fan) on instinct from feeling the impact and he stabbed me in the face (there is a visor stopping him from hitting my actual face). It was a very clean kill and after I took death I mentioned that the first shot where I dropped was low, but that I'd take the stab regardless.

1: corkscrewing is when you twist an opponent on their knees, which, while he was turned a little bit, I didn't feel that I was twisting him in an uncomfortable or unprecedented manner. It is apparent that our bodies are still lined up where I am in the 90 degree arc from the way his knees are facing. One can see that if he brought his left knee in line with his right we would be facing each other straight on again.

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