Best-dressed Warrior

[FrisianDude]

That depicts a Khurasani cavalryman, not a Sassanid one

Might be, but Sassanid tends to refer to the Persian empire of the time; Khurasani to a people. As such, Khurasani cavalrymen could have served as Cataphracts in a Sassanid army, like they did in later Arab armies.

 

[Roach XI the Magnificent]

That depicts a Khurasani cavalryman, not a Sassanid one , though I do not think they would have been armed any differently .

Dude, do you know where Khurusan is? And do you know who ruled Khurusan until the middle of the 7th century AD?

@Frisian Not even that much. The Sassanid empire had made a concentrated effort at creating a single national identity throughout the empire, and they came close to success. In so much that the Persians, originally a small semi-nomadic people in southern Iran, are now a people of 80 million. You see, the vast majority of them trace back to other Iranian peoples whom the Sassanid Persians assimilated. By the end of Sassanid rule the people nearly all spoke Persian, and identified themselves as Iranians. Especially the warrior class. So a Khurusani warrior was almost certainly Persian, Khurusan being the province he lived in.

 

[Lazyman]

By Sassanid I assume you would have meant Persian.

 

[Roach XI the Magnificent]

By Sassanid I assume you would have meant Persian.

But the various Iranian peoples had been so far integrated by the end of the period that the Khurusanis were no different from Persians.

 

[kedaffa]

I love this one, it's maybe at 1300-1400 ad 

 

[russik112]

I havent studied the medieval at all and that doesnt look like it is from the 14th century

 

[GodHandApostole]

Leans more to 16th, I dare say

 

[Roach XI the Magnificent]

Late 15th/early 16th.

 

[Blackthorn]

Early sixteenth. If it's anything it's like one of Henry viii god awful jousting suits. Lose the shield, obviously.

 

[Eктωρ]

Oh look at me I'm so rich and own so many lands. Let me charge my huge over-compensating lance over another sweaty man on a horse.

 

[Baguette Eater]

Problem peasant?

 

[Eктωρ]

I can JUST imagine one of those Jersey Shore assles wearing one of those things just to look rich and cool.

 

[JScott17]

WHY!? How could someone think of THAT!!!

 

[Bromden]

Now that's a codpiece!

 

[Baguette Eater]

I like it tbh, but I tend to like plate armor and transitionnal ones... and knight stuff in general.

 

[Delora Filth]

Isn't that king Henry VIII's armour? The stocky build would suggest so, and I believe I've seen it in a few books.

 

[Kobrag]

Isn't that king Henry VII's armour? The stocky build would suggest so, and I believe I've seen it in a few books.

Henry the VIII, bro.

Wive killin' and heroic Pope defying an' ****.

 

[Baguette Eater]

Yeah Henry VIII

 

[Delora Filth]

Sorry, missed an I while typing. Fixed now.

 

[Lazyman]

Russians has style