Favorite armor.

What armor really appeals to you.

I really like the unique, but effective armor that the Polish winged hussars used. It looked great, and performed just as well.

http://www.rencentral.com/sept_vol1/hussars.shtml

http://www.medieval-weaponry.com/en-us/dept_707.html

The mongols also had an amazing armor. As many of you know, they used silk and leather. The silk would allow arrows to be removed easily and this combination was very light.

In terms of design- depends, but a Japanese samurai armor looks scary, while aztec eagle warrior armor looks fancy, and Korean ones look colorful.  China is a mixture of hybrid as far as I can see. 

But did anyone realize that teutonic knights wore 10 layers of chail mail armor?  That msut have been pretty tough

Anything chainmail, when I worked in a butcher's shop we had chain mail gloves and those things wouldn't let anything slice you, besides if you wore extra layers like demon said for the teutonic knights you'd pretty much be immune to arrows. Although ten layers would be a little much, maybe 3 or so.......

This is all irrelevant but wasn't the gladius a thrusting sword?

"mongolian silk armor.

A silk shirt designed not to prevent slashes,stabs or other injuries but just so that it is easier to pull out the head of the arrow if it hits you."

Silk armour is not an mongolian invention nor is the mongols strongly revolutionized it in any way, silk only made up the minority of the mongol armour, its the Manchus that start to wear silk armour in great quantity.