Schola's planning on making an extensive chainmail test with "proper" mail and "proper" procedure.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ufpj1poGjmQ
ITT place your bets on how it will perform
Also we might as well have an ancient and medieval arms and armour thread while we're at it.
>>30604945
>>30604950
>>30604957
This one armor art for the guy on the horse is freaking everywhere. Where did they even get that design
>>30604945
Got any of Byzantine era troops?
>>30604923
tell him to test ring mesh http://www.ringmesh.com/
I want to know if that armor I bought is worth shit
>>30605285
if you mean the white armor, thats called a linothorax, basically thick cloth armor that cavalry would wear because it gave them really great mobility.
if you mean the red star things painted on the pauldrons, that was just a common pattern on carthaginian armor and shields.
>>30606913
Linothorax is great, infantry and cavalry alike used it for many years.
>>30604923
I bet 3 whole internets that it will work great against slashing weapons but will be shite against anything piercing
>>30607018
Unlike linothorax, of course
>>30607035
It was also great for gaining access to your shield brother's boipucci, apparently
>>30605294
Different anon, but I have what they drew themselves as back in the day
>>30607018
With the rivets and a gambeson I think that it'll do very well, actually
>>30607048
Add an axe in this guy's hand and you have yourself a mighty sea raider
>I vil drink fram yor skall!
>>30607077
Checked
The gambeson will do well I agree with you, but I still feel the mail itself will not be able to tolerate how much energy is focused on the point during a stabbing motion.
As I understand it. Ring mail was designed to decrease the likelihood that you would loose a limb. It cannot protect you well from piercing attacks mabey with the exception of a one handed broad tipped sword. It may stop that. Mainly however. Chain mail kept your arms on your torso and it took slashing damage of a sword and made the damage done relate more closely to a baseball bat.
>>30609836
It's pleb tier to say anything but "mail.'
boomp
>>30607135
To be fair, mail was just one part of a system. If it manages to slow a piercing attack enough that a gambeson can take care of the rest then it has done its job as intended.
A point that matt makes from time to time is that attacks are often misrepresented in 'cutting demonstrations' or tests. You have cold steel releasing videos of people swinging with the entirety of their body, in ways that would leave them horribly open to attack.
I predict that mail will make people absolutely impervious to 'normal' attacks that come mainly from the wrist and arms, and require attacks that incorporate the torso as well
>>30609836
Ring mail in the chainmail sense doesn't exist, it's all chainmail. Ring mail in reality was essentially leather with some metal rings sewn into it, generally only covering the chest due to shit flexibility if you wanted to actually protect a joint.
