Lets have an arms and armour thread
Were the Saxons the best dressed northmen?
One of the most iconic and
Coolest helmets
>>842621
That is copy from Sparta.
>>842625
Looks more corinthian to me senpai
always loved them but fuck me the day I noticed that plumeless variants look like cock heads hurt me
>>842625
Nigga what?
The ancient Greeks had such aestetically pleasing helmets and armor
Always loved medieval armor, although I'm a huge fan of any armor that has engravings on it
>>842642
Nigga that's a dick.
>>842687
muh dick
>>842687
>implying that's medieval
>>842740
I know it's not medieval and more Renaissance era but I couldn't find much in the way of actual good looking medieval shit. Most of what I found was largely Renaissance Era stuff, including this one
>>842779
you may like italian white armour
>>842790
That's some pretty cool stuff anon, thanks for the suggestion
>>842806
No problem friend, white armour in general's my jam
>even the best armour is white armour
why is white such a recipe for right?
no.
>>842840
Who were the best dressed northern germanic tribe then?
>>842607
Thracian helmet literally the sexiest.
>>843591
I never thought greaves could look sexy.
>>843607
>>843613
>>842779
>I couldn't find much in the way of actual good looking medieval shit
Probably because there is hardly any surviving armour from the middle ages.
>>842607
Hi
>>842607
I'm not even a latin, but saxon helmets look really silly.
Especially the mustache.
>>845644
Used to think so too, but they grew on me.
>>842694
Yes and?
>>845849
A) Certain shapes just work, you see similar style helmets popping up in China too, and B) diffusion of ideas.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngjMtzJ6xgQ
interesting testing of a bronze sword. I'm impressed by how well it held up
>>845854
I thought the main advantage of early iron was that it was actually easier to make/acquire, not that it was actually that much better than bronze mechanically.
>>845853
Probably helps that Saxons and other Germanics had constant contact with the Romans who had constant contact with the Iranians.
>>845857
Bronze is naturally a lot softer, its often said that it does not hold an edge as well. though early iron swords were not exactly impressive compared to medieval and modern work
nagimaki and naginata blades are the best
Vendel style best style.
>>842607
This spear has a song about it
"Yari means one-thousand spears.
Outside castles eagles gather
Raise, raise a shout of victory !
Yari means one thousand spears.
In the mountains of Hakone,
The pride we have forever
For Kikuchi Bushi"
>>843591
Trueeee
>>845847
Why were the archaic greeks still using bronze armor? bronze is expensive and softer than iron. They had iron weapons so why not armor?
>>847114
They did use iron the problem is that it doesn't survive as well as bronze does. The museums have a storage with all the pieces that aren't attractive enough to showcase
>>842607
Tibetan Dao (Dam, in Tibetan)
>>847159
can this be a meme
>>847191
I didn't know I needed this, what could it possibly be though ?
>>842607
>>847159
memethenians
>>842687
hahahaha thats not medieval you demented faggot
>>849268
Sadly,there's no surviving examples of mountain pattern scale.
>>850122
Judging by testing that's been done on reproductions, it was probably ceremonial.
http://greatmingmilitary.blogspot.com/2015/08/myth-of-shan-wen-kia.html
>>850501
A very interesting article but the test seems to be pretty wonky as it seems to have just fit a bunch of scales without any form of linkage and shot away.
Like there's nothing that kept them together except tessalation like a puzzle piece.
>>847191
Can you kill yourself?
>>842625
Yeah, no
>>850515
muh dick
I love hauberks with plate integrated in.
>>842607
Slav armor is best armor, plenty of room for squatting and roomy breastplates for yelling cytka at the top of your lungs!
sipahi armor always looks very weird to me
>hey you know how a buckler blocks attacks?
>how about we slap that shit on your chest
>>850501
Mountain pattern might actually just be cloth or a stylized form shown in artwork
>>857395
>>857398
This may be a dumb question but if plate armor is superior to mail, how come the Romans replaced their lorica segmentata with mail armor?
>>858434
Didn't it originally replace mail armor? I guess it became too expensive as Rome fell into decline.
>>858434
it's superior for a wealthy man who has time and skill to maintenance it properly. not for a bulk army.
Does anyone here own any of their own armor ?
>>858434
Lorica Segmentata is a bad example of plate armour
expensive, hard to repair, blades can be pushed through the segments, lorica musculata being superior to both hamata and segmentata but only really being used by the top 1 percent
>>859154
I own an early templar great helm, partially rounded top but hard-edged
>>862724
>Henry VIII may have occasionally worn glasses like these, but probably not horns, as this was the sign for a cuckold.
>>862729
And he used the cuckoldry to divorce.
>>853818
It is, indeed.
>>862831
>>862836
>>862838
WARNING: EXTREMELY TRIGGERING PICTURE
>>862940
you weren't kidding fuck me
Best armour coming through.
>>862958
>>858434
Because plate isn't straight-up better than mail, duh.
It's better at deflecting arrows and bolts and takes less time to make(which doesn't mean it's cheaper), at least the crude stuff that normal soldier used(but then again, king's mail is also a thing).
However, mail is simply comfortable. Get a decent padding and strong belt and you practically won't feel that you're wearing armour(outside of weighting several kilograms more). Your movement isn't hindered in any way, there's NO fitting required as long as it's little bigger than you(so you can put padding in between) and does it protect worse than plate armour against typical threats a soldier might have encountered in conflicts?
It's worse against piercing weapons. Little worse against swords and axes(but it really depends on thickness of your padding here). You're actually safer in it when fighting a maceman since it may break your ribs but it won't bend and suffocate you. Sabres are a joke for anybody in armour anyway in fact the mail only serves as a mean protecting the padding from being ripped with sabre(since padding is good enough for them anyway)
The most important reason for mail being supplemented by plate and later phased out(outside of nobles and kings but that's another topic) is improved metallurgy and lack of cheap workpower after the black death plague. In these realities outfitting your army in plate was simple the only thing you could do. In the areas where mail was still very commonly used, Black Plague wasn't excessively harsh on the population
Majority of Segmentatas that we know are from few decades after Teutoburg Forest battle which is self-explaining - Romans had to equip 3 new legions from ground-up with armour so they needed something less time-demanding than hamata and still cheaper than musculata. The result? Segmentata, armour which weight distribution sucks, which was probably never well-fitted and wasn't used by anybody but Romans(unlike mail or "real" plate armour).
>>862958
Thats fucking based. Also, where is this helmet from? Kinda looks like parade armor.
>>863158
Roman Equites helmet
Druzhina armor is fucking sexy
>>862940
Dude I have this book from my childhood... written by L.R. Nougier and P. Joubert Viking times.
>>863428
Face covering mail and small tear-drop shields make me erect.
>>862958
Holy shit, that is some nice looking armor. Wait... isn't something missing? Where is the cod-piece?
>>863917
I find these kind of helmet fancy as fuck
>>842625
>Literally called corinthian helmet.
Spartas was about Pilos style helmets senpai-chi, not corinthians.
>>863917
those look like modern hinges and bolts
>>863995
i wouldent know about that, all i know is that i like how its simpel helmet with a more complex face plate
>>863969
Well it was called a corinthian helmet but that style of helmet didn't originate there. True though the Spartans used a pilos helmet early on but transitioned like all other city states in the later 3 and 4 centuries. Thracian and Chalcidian helmets became the more popular ones later on
>>863921
sexy
