The more extravagant, the better. Also post the best sites where you can buy helmets from
http://www.re-enactmentsupplies.co.uk/
For UK / EU bros
>>331342
vendel culture helmets are the best.
>>331405
Gorgeous mail veil. Pure and powerful!!
>>331342
>Also post the best sites where you can buy helmets from
Jeff Hildebrandt: Royal Oak Armoury.
another by Jeff
Robert "Mac" Macpherson. now (mostly) retired.
Ugo Serrano (also did the cuirass)
Sutton hoooooo
Roman Tereschenko.
not only a brilliant armourer, but also damn cheap. And for a juy in eastern europe, notable for making proper armour, not stuff for bohurt tournaments. The fact that Dr Tobias Capwell, curator at the wallace collection, and champion jouster, who used to use Mac (considered the world's best before he retired) for his armours now has Roman and Per Lillelund-Jensen make his armours is testament to Roman's quality.
>>331640
and the aforementioned Per Lillelund Jensen
>yfw this is actually a real helmet, worn by Henry VIII
can't ovapowa the tokugawa
>>332197
You know samurai didn't actually have horns on their helmets right? It was the vikings that started the trend, and now every fantasy reinterpretation of helmets has horns.
>>332241
> It was the vikings that started the trend,
Kindly leave this board and never return.
>tfw plebs try to troll me on the battlefield
>>332172
a gift from Maximilian I if I recall correctly, I doubt he ever worn it though.
>>332172
AYE SHMAE
>>331342
does this count?
>>332821
It's for protection against arrows
When they got to physical combat they'd take the visor off
>>332811
No, but this does
>>332860
Did the leather pickelhaube helmet have any actual protection value?
I like these spikey persian helmets a lot. It probably had feathers or plumes in those two things right and left of the nose protection.
>>332964
Man those would like pimping as fuck with the feathers.
>be a malnourished peasant conscript, sleep-deprived and hungry
>you were forced to join your lord's army, halfway through the war
>you are brought to an already raging battle as a unit of reinforcements
>after a while it's almost your turn to enter the fray
>you can't really see in front of you, until the unit in front of you charges forward
>suddenly you see the enemy, one of them is a 6'+, powerful noble who is cutting everyone down around him and screaming in pleasure
>he's wearing this, only it's drenched in blood
How spooked would you be?
>>331342
>>332821
neither is a jousting helm.
vision in them is surprisingly good, you lose a little peripheral, and a little bit of downwards vision. worse is actually hearing impairment, not vision.
>>333034
>>be a malnourished peasant conscript,
So... someone who didnt really exist?
even the saxons used professional warriors in the fyrd, not "peasants". if you put the workers on the field, it meant you were about to be wiped out in a horrible fashion, because you're removing your own workforce from the fields.
the whole notion of the starving peasant (also wrong, they had a good high-calorie diet. you do not work 10 hours hard labour if you're starving. It might have been bland for the poorest, but it was not lacking in substance) is an ignorant myth.
>>333139
>>333139
>>333143
>>333139
>>333143
>>333148
> The German Pickelhaube (spiked helmet) was found to be totally unsuitable for trench warfare. It was not durable in the rough conditions of the trenches, it was very expensive to produce, and it provided no real combat protection. In 1915, Army Group Gaede, named after the commanding general, was in position in the Vosges Mountains, near the Swiss border. General Gaede was alarmed about the high number of head wounds his soldiers were receiving, in his relatively 'quiet' sector of the front. Growing frustrated with administrative red tape and lack of action, he had his own helmet designed, and supplied about 1,500 to his front line troops.
Few examples remain, as most were melted down after the M1916 Stahlhelm was introduced. Gaede's helmet was very heavy at 4 1/2 pounds. It consisted of two parts, a soft leather and cloth skull cap that covered the head and a heavy steel plate, attached to the leather cap with rivets. The thick curved steel plate only covered the forehead area, with a long nose piece hanging down, similar to the Norman helmets of the 11th Century. It only protected the front of the head, where the majority of wounds occurred. The helmet was less than successful, but it did have one feature that was later used in the stahlhelm. It was made from a chromium-nickel steel alloy, that proved to be very strong.
http://www.worldwar1.com/sfgstal.htm
>>332241
b8
>>332821
It's very narrow on purpose, you can't march into a bunch of arrows if your armor has big gaps. It enables you to see straight ahead as you approach the enemy and then you can lift the visor for melee combat if you wish.
The main problems with a helmet like that is you can't see downward at all which makes it very easy to trip over things and it impairs your hearing quite significantly. For eliminating the risk of getting an arrow to the face though, very much worth it.
Underrated
>>333034
Even though conscription of peasants was normal in medieval Europe, most people were neither malnourished nor weak. Lords didn't just hoard crops and make the peasants starve, they wouldn't be able to work and generate income if that had been the case.
surprised this hasn't been posted yet
Burgonet is aesthetic as fuck
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