Cloth Barded Hunters\Warhorses

[Jean Plassy]

Hello,

Is it historically accurate to include richly clothed and ornated warhorses without any sort of further mail barding? In my understanding many noble horses of the period were indeed richly adorned with heraldry but only had a chamfron to protect the horse's head, being essentially unarmored. That could be a good compromise between the versatility of the hunter with the eye-candy of the barded warhorse.

 

[Ambalon]

Shush noobie

 

[Jean Plassy]

Beatiful post. Makes my faith in humanity soar.

 

[Ambalon]

Ah, noobie in the internet... Fresh meat... Internet makes you loose all your faith in mankind

 

[SupaNinjaMan]

Ah, noobie in the internet... Fresh meat... Internet makes you loose all your faith in mankind

yes, the internet make me loose my faith in humankind also.
use proper wording next time.
such as lose.

and yes, barded noble hunters would be cool, but it might prove to be useless, especially if the only plus would be it's use as eye candy.

 

[Ambalon]

some people just don't understand sarcasm when they see it... off you go noobie

 

[Jean Plassy]

and yes, barded noble hunters would be cool, but it might prove to be useless, especially if the only plus would be it's use as eye candy.

Actually it would be quite realistic, since horses with proper barding were very rare during the period and straight up to the XV century. Plus by "eye candy", it would mean there would be more room for all the shiny heraldry without having to take an extremely bulky and slow horse.

Ah, noobie in the internet... Fresh meat... Internet makes you loose all your faith in mankind

You sound like the typical repressed nerdy who can only have the balls to insult someone on the internetz, because you have no social life. Seriously, stop wasting your time pretending you're the macho and go do something on your life besides internet trolling, stupid egotistical brat.

 

[Lost-Lamb]

You sound like the typical repressed nerdy who can only have the balls to insult someone on the internetz, because you have no social life. Seriously, stop wasting your time pretending you're the macho and go do something on your life besides internet trolling, stupid egotistical brat.

Hear hear!

 

[SupaNinjaMan]

and yes, barded noble hunters would be cool, but it might prove to be useless, especially if the only plus would be it's use as eye candy.

Actually it would be quite realistic, since horses with proper barding were very rare during the period and straight up to the XV century. Plus by "eye candy", it would mean there would be more room for all the shiny heraldry without having to take an extremely bulky and slow horse.

well, yes, you're right, i'd trade a barded courier or hunter for a barded warhorse because i want to get to the frontlines quickly, but since they were rare, how might one obtain them? through lords, tournaments, what?

 

[DanAngleland]

Hello,

Is it historically accurate to include richly clothed and ornated warhorses without any sort of further mail barding? In my understanding many noble horses of the period were indeed richly adorned with heraldry but only had a chamfron to protect the horse's head, being essentially unarmored. That could be a good compromise between the versatility of the hunter with the eye-candy of the barded warhorse.

Good idea

 

[FrisianDude]

Yes, I suppose it sounds logical and more variation is always good.
Cloth barding is also called a caparison, by the way.

Also; Ambalon, be nice.

 

[Hietala]

You sound like the typical repressed nerdy who can only have the balls to insult someone on the internetz, because you have no social life. Seriously, stop wasting your time pretending you're the macho and go do something on your life besides internet trolling, stupid egotistical brat.

that's how TW people are... don't mind them, most of them are jerks

 

[AWdeV]

Not as much as Ambalon was here though.

More on topic: I like this idea and I've no doubts that it can be done.

 

[Tuidjy]

I think it is a wonderful idea.  The heavy hunter is my horse of choice, and I would
love to have more variation in the barding.