Which type of plate armour would you like to have?
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Lt. of the tower
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u said it friend, here, here!!
Eldar.Balamir
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turkish and russian krug is looking cool. And they are lighter than others, arent they?
Aqtai
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Eldar.Balamir said:
Now that is a good question, so I went and looked it up.
According to Claude Blair's "European Armour, circa 1066 to circa 1700", the mid-15th century Milanese full plate armour in the Glasgow Museums weighs 57 lbs (26 kg) and a mid-16th century full plate harness weighs about 45 lbs (20.4 kg).
One of the Russian zertsalos in the Moscow armoury dated 1616 AD weighs 11 kg, but that is just the krug. It would normally have been worn over a mail shirt, with a helmet, mail-and-plate vambraces, cuisses and greaves.
A mail shirt weighs about 9 to 15 kg, a chichak style helmet weighs about 3.3 kg and vambraces about 2 kg. Unfortunately i couldn't find any references for the weight of mail-and-plate cuisses or greaves.
Anyway I have a feeling both types of armour, Western European full plate and the Eastern krug, would have roughly been about the same weight, but the krug was probably more flexible.
Gotta love the Gothic armour, it's abit annoying that there is only one type of plate armour in vanilla 1.003 
Transitional, and only transitional.
I don't know well the difference between milanese, german, english armours and so on... but I would like to have all these full plate aromurs (for the horses too):
Specially the first and the last 5 armours in the last 3 pics.
In the Native there is already a plate armour... anyway, it's a breeze to set the age to the 16th century.socks said:
Yeaaah plate plate plaaate!!KuroiNekouPL said:
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I would like to see some more armors of East Europe and Minor Asia (Lamellar, Scale,...). I think this stuff has way more style than the boring plates of West Europe.
Like this armor of a Byzantine Cataphract.
http://media.photobucket.com/image/byzantine%20cataphract%20armor/peronis/e014a.jpg
Or this Varanging Guard.
http://pneymatiko.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/varangian_guard.jpg
Another awesome cataphract armor.
http://www.cais-soas.com/CAIS/Images2/Military/Sasanian_calibanarius.gif
Like this armor of a Byzantine Cataphract.
http://media.photobucket.com/image/byzantine%20cataphract%20armor/peronis/e014a.jpg
Or this Varanging Guard.
http://pneymatiko.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/varangian_guard.jpg
Another awesome cataphract armor.
http://www.cais-soas.com/CAIS/Images2/Military/Sasanian_calibanarius.gif
Not bad the cataphract... but these ones are the best!AustrianGeneral said:
http://www.hickerphoto.com/data/media/184/knight-armor_14664.jpg
http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:H4cYW0HClY7SkM:http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y110/Nephtys/Medieval%20European%20Armour/Avant_armour_1440.jpg&t=1
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3002/3091860019_4630874588.jpg
http://www.jadu.de/mittelalter/ritter/images/ritter_jpg.jpg
West Europe rules!
AustrianGeneral
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Lord Ferdinand said:Not bad the cataphract... but these ones are the best!AustrianGeneral said:
http://www.hickerphoto.com/data/media/184/knight-armor_14664.jpg
http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:H4cYW0HClY7SkM:http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y110/Nephtys/Medieval%20European%20Armour/Avant_armour_1440.jpg&t=1
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3002/3091860019_4630874588.jpg
http://www.jadu.de/mittelalter/ritter/images/ritter_jpg.jpg
West Europe rules!
Have to admit i like Gothic Armor (im Austrian (a brother nation of germany), i have to!) but
CATAPHRACTS STILL PAWN KNIGHTS !!!
http://img50.imageshack.us/i/seleucidcataphract2fs2.jpg/
The first picture is of a Lombard Cataphract.AustrianGeneral said:
