Make it from cardboard.

That's a heart-melting comment indeed. :-)

Sayem it's much better if you buy from an armorer who tailors it to your body

Don't worry, if you be a peasant levy you might have a chance to look at your lord before you get thrown as meatshields.

forexjammer by the time of plate, professional soldiers with good armor made up the majority of an army

Hahaha that gives me a idea

💖. Great armour as a may be heavy.

@@richardgoode5314 its only around 50 or 60 pounds thats not much

@@user-mr1zs1np7w A high price as to enter a museum in Britain!

@@richardgoode5314 ? Im sure armor is expensive

Prepare the bodking heads. We will show this rich kid who is the boss.

War is litterally pay to win.

@@shahshakuras700 bodkin couldn't damage good quality armor though. Let alone bodkin from longbow, even a shoot from pistol couldn't penetrate a properly made plate armor. Only a large, large caliber musket that could put holes in it.

@@muhamadsayyidabidin3906 I mean that depends on the quality of the armour as well as the bodkin arrow used most small calibre muskets and pistols could deliver enough stopping power to penetrate and kill a man in even the best and most expensive armour that's why knights stopped wearing them to begin with as weapons of war changed armour and sword fighting was obsolete

@@Hexados-666 that's why I said good quality armor. In the past, armor was tested or "proofed" By getting shot at by a crossbow on point blank range. If the result is just a dent, then the armor is "proof". Later on as handheld firearm became more and more powerful, armorer began proofing their armor using pistol instead. You could search on the internet about " Proofed armor" Or "armor of proof" And found many examples of bulletproof" armor.

Funnily enough, flexing on your opponent was a very viable strategy in medieval war.

Raptormann0205 I can see it being a double edged sword because it you capture the guy you would be able to hold him for a pretty big ransom.

@The Pope That's exactly why you would wear incredibly fancy armor actually. Better to be captured than killed.

Flex on them peasants

@Emperor Louis The Retard As far as we know they normally didn't, but terms of surrender and such did exist and were used so a short term captivity might have been possible

Not as rich as those times though. They were tons of times more expensive

How much would one of these cost nowadays?

About 30k dollars? It's either this or a car...

The armour this reproduction is based off would have cost 1.2 million dollars in modern money . While the reproduction is anywhere from 20-50k

War Kryhme well not to be that rich. There were multiple qualities of steel and you could buy 2nd hand stuff or off the shelf. You could also buy buy 1 piece at a time.

Accurate

Milanese Armour is the Gucci

@@shahshakuras700 don't see the appeal

I don't know, Gothic Armours weren't mass produced in china and reselled as made in italy

No, it's Hugo Boss.

We just never stop battling each other lmao

In a sense, a car is engineered body armor, but one that's also mobile now too and has a nice heater/aircon, and sat nav!

We dont like talking about the only time they teamed up.

@@Robodragon17 ahem nope no we don't lol

It really isn't a contest with cars

Hearted on a year old video 11/10

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We need to remake some us the same design physiology and all that just modern see how it turns out oh and if you think they won't the German bent a barrel on a gun to try to make a gun that could shoot side ways we a currently trying to do that

Both of these replies make me question existence

@Snek Supremacist i dont remeber ethier this was six months ago

I want to give you a like but you're at 666 likes.

What ???

It's a meme

End him rightly!

why did knights prefer an arming doublet instead of mail or gambeson

he probably wore his arming doublet over his gambeson. Also, wearing a full mail shirt in addition to his plate armor would make him tire very quickly because of the weight.

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Nic Theam I'm looking too take Jeruselem got any Templar Garb?

@@extraextra8021 Deus Vult my friend!

Nic Theam AYE!

The finest weapons and armour.

Thanks xxx

@@RoyalArmouries You still look like you haven't been outside for a while

@@spongebobsquarepants8403 tf u doin lookin at armor, sir

@@jacksonguillory8114 my goals are beyond your understanding

@@spongebobsquarepants8403 Something about spongeboob saying this fills me with a sense of dread...

even this day with advanced tools making an hard armor with that level of detail would be super hard

@@ofal5124 yeah it is.

Tools were anything but primitive. An armourers shop would have a bewildering array of different types of hammers, stake tools, chisels, vises, and to top it all off, very often water-powered wheels for grinding and polishing the finished work.

@@althesmith That's why i said "comparable". They had no machines, tools or smelters powered by electricity. And no furnace could produce the temperatures that are possible today. That's also a reason why steel wasn't as good and flawless back then.

Ah- you're a Helmschmidt?

When I was in the Marine Corps as a running joke I would have a boot (new guy to the unit) on my fireteam as my "squire". I would have him put my plate carrier and helmet on me like a squire gearing up a knight. I hope he carried on the tradition, just a bit of fun for the guys haha.

@@freedomforall1712 hopefully he stuffed some pogey bait and dip in the dump pouch like a good squire

Bulletproof armor existed in 16th and 17th century

They might have discovered what kevlar was and used it as a third layering below the chainmail

@@xxxxxx5868 Kevlar is pretty useless against sharp things. Turns out, kevlar isn't terribly resilient against being slashed or pierced. It's very optimised for extremely fast moving, small projectiles. Maybe useful against crossbows, but not much else

@@sirpuffball6366 I would imagine kevlar being pretty useful for arrows, and since it's going to be below chainmail it won't get cut as easily.

@Emperor Louis The Retard breastplate is still being used up to ww1

krisantha mahendra hmmm the squire is 200 y.o unknighted squire

Ponselgraphy, nah he got tired of being a knight, and choose to become a servant for his future offspring instead. It's rumored that to this day he still lives on, as an accountant with a lot of wealth.

Lol. Squire is a noble of the highest kind, not mere servant of a knight, but his trainee, pal and brother in arms. And he is as rich as his master.

Yeah, I kept reading all kinds of backstory into that - like the Norman knight's descendants became lackeys to the Hohenstaufens or something. :P

The Major Yes, and one day there will be only ONE!

Same here, personally not a fan of the large shoulder pieces of the Northern Italian style.

@@flynn659 was prepared for the onslaught of people cursing you for disagreeing with their opinion on what armor type looks best and was only a little disappointed nobody came...

@@cheesychipmunk8382 That's funny, I was under the impression that the Gothic style was the more appreciated of the two.

@@MarikHavair well there's plenty for both styles

@@MarikHavair It's funny, the gothic style seems to be more preferred right up until talking about the helmets. I've grown to quite like the German sallet (both aesthetically and in design), but most seem to prefer the Armet, which is usually associated with Italian kits.

After 300 years or so

Armor actually holds up pretty good after being shot

It's really rifled rounds that started to make armor obsolete, even then while full plate pieces became less common, thicker but smaller harnesses were still used

Gunpowder: *exists* Tanks: im about to end this mans whole career.

@@user-wz3eu6us9k Shape charge.

awesome job man, the short series really takes you back to those times

I'm still more of a 14th century lover myself, but this is definitely a close second.

@TheBeastWithin *Utterly disgusting!* You plebians need to get on my level, 16th century master race.

You forgot the most important part - "BRETHREN!?"

Look at 16th century cavalry armour .

Sigismund II Augustus Parade Armor

I see what you did there ;)

* Historical metal music intensifies*

Heh Royal armouries listen to a certain metal band I think.

No, they metal

Good one

Economies of scale.

This. Same reason clothing is so incredibly cheap now that we throw away shirts for getting stains and just buy more.

It's definetly cheaper now tho. Nowdays, reproduction armour costs like $30k. Back then it would have been more like $3 million

One thousand to 10k can get you a suit of armor of varying quality. Which considering inflation is nothing compared to what it would have cost at the time.

@@xxxxxx5868 . . . no

+9 to AC, max dex +1, -5 armor check penalty (master crafted). Weight 40 lbs.

Natural Law ← clicks "remind me later" on software updates

Whats that supposed to mean?

Natural Law you're glued to one rpg from one era.

Is that supposed to be a problem for you?

the knights were not qany more drunken than other soldiers which probably wasn't much since alcohol is expensive to make without modern industrial methods

Eduardo Kopik Don't make me laugh, without modern regulation (that forcibly keep normal people from competing with big companies) everyone who had some land to grow crops/fruit would be making their own alcohol. And since in medieval times almost everyone was a farmer, alcohol was really easy to get, so much so that peasants preferred to drink beer over water (beer was the soft drink of the medieval world).

Alcohol was generally much safer to consume than water in this time period. Everyone drank, even very young children.

they drank wine and beer, but it had way less alcohol then today

It's common to portray them as "drunken bastards" in dark fantasy (Game of Thrones, Dragon Age, etc) but make no mistake knights were human beings like you. They were just as capable of compassion and sincerity as anyone else, and some genuinely aspired to (and even lived up to!) ideals of chivalry.

Not the shooty boi, early guns had difficulty penetrating the armor.

@@gandalfthegrey2592 Yeah, but as you see today, combatans wear close to no armour specifically because of the shooty boi (and explodey boi).

@@hungrydragon9402 lol

@@hungrydragon9402 they wear Kevlar vest and bulletproof vest which is heavier than this armor. Your statement is wrong about wearing nothing on a battlefield nowadays because gun. And on those old days Europe is full of iron, gold and steel so they make armor from those recourses

@@user-vf6nq1hl1n A bulletproof vest weighs less than full plate armour. Also, nowadays almost no fighters use protection for the arms and legs. They wear much less armour than before.

The cost would of been the equivalent of owning a new Ferrari today!

right, but today we call it Abrams or Leopard II

For those interested in Medieval Time travel The Good Men by Matt Turner Contact, second book by Walt Socha

Noneofyour Business BioWare is where its at

Fuck bethesda because bethesda is LAZY AS FUCK yeah thier games are fun and all but they are really just a one time played game, you play it once and do every thing you possibly can do in the game, you'll never comeback and if you did you will DIE of boredom and you will start realizing how RIDICULOUS THE VOICE ACTING IS ITS SOOO POORLY MADE That it makes me feel like the game was made by a 16 year old guy with the help of his family and friends and there are no cutscenes and the story is ridiculousness it self OH I AM DRAGON BORN NOW!!! and then more RIDICULOUS SHIT happen and you kill Alduin in THE MOST RIDICULOUS WAY POSSIBLE. Oh and they started adding micro transactions IN A SINGLE PLAYER GAME!!!!.

Yes!

KC:D is for the 14th century video though.

Noneofyour Business get darksouls,so much cool plate Armor from many different historical points/cultures

Hải Đỗ I would end him rightly with my pommel

It would probably be an fearfull sight as a foe

Hải Đỗ use a special mixed polearm called a bill hook. It can be used to hook into the joints of the armor and yank the knight anywhere you please, and then stab into the week points. It’s advisable to do this with some comrades at your back.

You've got a helmet, shield, and perhaps some sort of gambeson or even mail if you're lucky to protect you, and given a basic sword that hardly even phases a person in full plate to kill this experienced, skilled, well armed, and seemingly invincible warrior. youcandoitifyoubelieve

Better have a hammer

I also love the selection of music but I can’t seem to find it anywhere. Do you perchance know exactly this piece?

well depends. the full plate was still in use after the gun had entered the battlefiel and could sucscsesfully stop musket balls. but later in the period the guns became much better and more widesprad. against modern gunfire it would not stand a chance so i agree on that XD

It would also mean the velocity of the bullet went through the metal and into the mans chest, often resulting in broken ribs, sternum, the metal could also bend inward making it difficult to breathe. Generally these injuries were blunt force trauma and were often just as deadly

Just came here to say this. So clever!

Temenos Lykourgos You can totally do that tho.

I know. Your sword will definitely 'get dirty' if you're actually using it anyway, so some fingerprints aren't a big deal. It's just the instinct in me reacting, as I keep steel arms and know how one smudge left unchecked can lead to a spot of awful rust. Obviously these things would be checked for damaged, repaired if needed, cleaned and re-oiled afterward. (So much work, really).

The gauntlets have leather gloves though.

Lol I winced at that too! :)

Well probably not the work that falls to the lord so who cares, just a bit more work that the squire brought upon himself

what if we combined that with plate?

StripestheCat useless

Why would that be useless? The plate would add protection against knives, somewhat to an extent bullets, and debris, while the kevlar, ceramics, and plastics would offer more protection against bullets and shrapnel. It would almost be like wearing a tank, though maybe this system could only work with an exoskeleton attached to the legs to take most of the load so I do see where it fails.

Put a functioning exo suit under it with a good system of heat venting, air filtration and air conditioning, plus battery life and you're onto something, but it's basically a mech already. Otherwise, 'plate' is nearly pointless. You no longer use plate as infantry protection against the extremely high velocity projectiles we now use, instead slapping it onto big vehicles with powerful engines instead. Know why? Because to attain a valid level of say, battle rifle (7.62x54mm), or even .50 caliber/medium MG protection, the steel has to be thick enough that it's weight is incredibly prohibitive to wear for a soldier. Kevlar *already* offers excellent protection against both knives *and shrapnel*. All you really need is Ceramic plating over the majority of the body or the more likely places to be hit, (chest, head, thighs, some supplemental bits on the arms and shins and shoulders) and a mix of both in a sturdy helmet, and well-made kevlar weaves with padding everywhere else. But seriously, steel plated armor is nearly pointless on people due to how easily it is pierced by even quite early 20th century firearms, and many before that. This idea was tampered with quite a bit in WWI, if you want to look at some interesting concepts, but many forms of personal steel shielding that were experimented with were ultimately useless against a single standard infantry rifle caliber round as they were too thin, (because they needed to be portable). While yes, steel would still be far better than nothing versus say, shrapnel, ceramic is already a bit lighter and more effective at shrugging off bullets while still being man-portable. The other issue with having a thick steel exosuit is in .. weight, believe it or not. In certain environments, something that godawfully heavy will simply not 'work' without tank treads or very long legs, or wider robofeet. That's part of the positives of tank treads.. wheels would sink into the ground due to the excessive weight of the armor, whereas the treads spread that force out over an enormous surface area comparatively speaking.

tbh it would disappoint you. I've worn the whole kit, it's hardly all encompassing, and hardly a work of art.

I think that dying in general would be pretty frustrating

The medieval era had so many assets You could loot you could travel you could have anything you want. Provided you were a knight

It was very hard to kill a full armored knight mounted or dismounted, research about the old texts, even tho they were with cuts, bashed, without nose or a finger, pierced by an arrow and bleeding they still could fight and kill you one on one.

Knight's ghost: Hey armorer! Armorer: WTF!? Knight's ghost: I want a refund.

You might like exoskeletons, they might combine the beauty of body armor with artificial muscles.

I feel like modern weapons are too powerful, there's something amazing about using your strength and skill to fight.

@@psychepeteschannel5500 Idk if humans will ever get over warring with each other. Although if it did happen I would love to live in a world like that where money could be spent not on war, but to better humanity and protect our planet better, and just be united.

@@jorgejohnson875 cringe

German design! 😉

We're really glad you enjoy them!

agree. but they are completly difrent cultures with diffrent takes on combat. it would be like pitching a viking against a roman soldier xD

The samurai weren't stupid, they'd know their swords can't cut through metal armor. The samurai's armor was a lamellar construction similar to the coat of plates that the 13th century knight wore but over a larger portion of their bodies. A Sengoku Jidai samurai would have similar levels of protection to the 14th century knight. It would still be an uphill battle for the samurai, don't get me wrong, but I wouldn't call as one sided as that.

And both knight and samurai would prefer to fight on horseback and with lances anyway.

But they are not good against maces, warhammers and etc.

@@necipfortniteksakurek4725 correction, they were insanely good even against maces and warhammers. Those were the only weapons that had a chance of taking down a knight, it wasn't easy

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we use full plate armor till today... they are so big that 3 to 4 fit inside...today they are called tank.. the knights of the modern battlefield

cain modern helmets are made of synthetics not steel and while some cheaper plates are made of stuff like AR500, for the most part, the stuff issue is ceramic

Well then just kick the shit out of your enemies!

4000-5000 is actually pretty cheap for a full suit of plate , most of the estimates i've seen were around 10,000-30,000 for a full suit of fitted plate armor

@@bringbackthebattleships8933 sure, your prices must be actual for the EU, US, Canada. In Ukraine everything is much cheaper.

Hey, just what you see, pal.

Actually pretty doable. There isn't anything between the bottom of the cuirass and the top of the cuisses except that little bit of flared skirting, so you just have to reach around that to undo your fly (or codpiece), spread your legs a bit, and aim down (rather than the modern habit of aiming forward). I do wonder it they had butt-flaps on their trousers (similar to some modern-ish winter gear) for taking a dump though.

The richest of men ... I could afford this and I do not belong to the richest of men.

For those interested in Medieval Time travel The Good Men by Matt Turner Contact, second book by Walt Socha

What's a pommel gonna do to you?

end me rightly

A single pommel is only useful as a butt plug.

@@fischkopp1234 you've obviously never seen a man ended rightly.

fischkopp1234 You've obviously never have been ended rightly with a pommel

During this period mail had fallen out of use in conjunction with plate. It's not like the knight cannot protect those areas himself anyway.

The narrators did say they would be there, but they were left out for the sake of the presentation. But you are correct, there would still be segments of mail to protect the more vulnerable areas.

Draugr_the_Greedy not really. Mail was still used by men at arms, and by knights alike, just not as a primary method of protection. It was used to cover the joints and groin areas.

could also be that this is a cuirass that was meant to be used mostly on horse. I thinkt hey had less groin protection

at horse you dot need it, warhorse equipment already protects groin, and without horse knights use groin protect plate.