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.rencentral.com/sept_vol1/hussars.shtml

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

Brigandine,  that is what I would wear if going on the front lines

Terribly sorry I was in a rush.  To be specific leather brigandine,  nice and flexible and light but still tough and can be repaired by a soldier.

my favorite armor in terms of appearance in no doubt Japanese armor.

In terms of effectiveness I caould really argue anyones case, but I also really like mid Ottoman armor with the slim plates and lots so chain.

Most effective from what historical sources Ive read would be Tibetan armor though.  In reports from Turks, Arabs, and Chinese it is mentioned how good Tibetan armor was and how it stopped arows much better thna most others.

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?

The European Plate armor of the 1400s! It covered everything, and I mean everything, and it dominated European battlefields for 100 years till the invention of firearms. Though pictured in movies as heavy and cumbersome, it's actually pretty effective in the Battlefield with the right tactics (not the French tactics of charging English longbowmen in the field, but one that uses the advantages of the knights relative invulnerability in hand to hand combat).

To me, they just look heavy...maybe it was used during cav vs cav confontation where you bash an enemy passing closely by with the wide wing...you know what I'm saying?

But, True, Polish Hussars are remarkable.

"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.

Read the whole post next time

"But if the Mongols came before the Manchus, how is that logically possible?"

? The mongols never used silk armour in great quantity as it was expensive and lacking, on the other hand the manchu bannerman wore excessive silk as protection.

"I am quite certain that the Mongols were the first to wear silk as a protection against arrows."

I do remember reading that some turkish people wore it before them. And if I wasn't mistaken so did the Jin. Its not hard to believe considering silk has been around for a long time.

Keltoi's armor is really beautiful,

As China has about several thousand years history, I can  list a part of armors appeared in its history.

from 2000BC. to 19th century.

http://zh1110.nease.net/OTHER/zgjbkj.htm - http://zh1110.nease.net/OTHER/zgjbkj.htm

http://www.historylink101.net/china/armor.htm - http://www.historylink101.net/china/armor.htm

I'm most interested in european 14th century armour - when the armour developed from simple maille to advanced plate armour. I'm actually currently working on a suite of armour from the early 14th century - a combination of maille, leather and plate armour. It will look something like this:

http://www.historiska.se/histvarld/drakter/1300sla/1300slafr.htm - http://www.historiska.se/histvarld/drakter/1300sla/1300slafr .htm

/Mikael

You're surely an interesting person, Mangudai

(btw, welcome *back* to AE)

Brigandine armor,  if I am correct was an armor used by the Spanish mainly,  it was made of layers of hard leather strips that were riveted together,  a soldier could repair it,  it was pretty light(about six pounds) and very sturdy.

The mongols had it on the inside.

Thanks mate!

Btw, speaking of "silk armour" - have anyone actually tested that material against arrows in modern tests_

can also be made of metal plates.

My favorite... mountain pattern scale, an armour exclusively produced in China (and possibly Korea). It's like the final step in the evolution of scale armors (scale->lamellar->Mountan pattern scale)

http://www.flatbow.com/shanwenkia/ - http://www.flatbow.com/shanwenkia/  that website explains what it is

I've only seen it rendered in art though, if there are any remaining suits of it still existing, they aren't on display.

For it's era this kind of armor was, probably, the best in this part of the world.

GREEK HELMETS:

Corinthian (Infantry, 7th-5th century BC)

Boeotian (Cavalry, 5th-2nd century BC)

Phrygian (Infantry, 5th-2nd century BC, usede mainly by Ionian Greeks and Alexander's troops)

Attic helmet (Infantry, 5th-2nd century BC)

Breastplates (Thorax, Argos, 8th century BC-one of the early ones):

Breastplates (Thorax, Greek Apulia, 4th century BC):

Other types of armor were made out of Linen (Linothorax). They were lighter, offered good protection and were not as hot! Here's what Linothorax looked like: http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/1855328674/ref=sib_dp_pt/103-5952402-4879842#reader-page - http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/1855328674/ref=sib_dp_pt/103 -5952402-4879842#reader-page  (sometimes leather was used instead)

leg guards:

Overall:

NO THATS NOT LORD OF THE RINGS THATS FROM WARCRAFT3!!!!

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