Damn armor was basicaly a second skin

>>64075049 (OP)
did penis have something like that too? if you suddenly get hard when killing people

>>64075049 (OP)
That's pretty avanced and high status armor. Not what the common soldier would wear (in any time period).

>>64075061
Codpiece, anon. Room to grow.

>>64075061
Wym? Isn't OP for penis protection?

>>64075066
you meant cock piece?

>>64075049 (OP)
In order to make it unnecessarily articulated, it's going to need to weigh 3 times as much.
Feet don't bend like that, and that's just bad design. The last place you want an extra kilogram is on your sabatons.

Was there no problem with the lack of ankle movement?

>>64075151
ok smithy

>>64075049 (OP)
you realise that thing alone weighs about 25lbs? it took a fucking crane to lift a knight back on his horse.
second skin my ass
if you want actual second skin, get o-yoroi.

>>64075151
>Feet don't bend like that
They do lol. It's not that heavy.

>>64075792
Get out of here history illiterate weeb

>>64075792
hit the gym ricecel

>>64075792
Only the heaviest tournament armor required that. War armor was lighter.

>>64075792
That's bullshit, but very late tournament suits were designed to mostly be installed while the knight was astride his horse.

>>64075797
It's pointless. This is mounted horse armor. If you're marching in articulated sabatons somebody's getting their head lopped because only kings and landed nobles can afford this shit.

>>64075137
Codpiece

>>64075804
>>64075869
>>64075909
>>64075926

holy historically illiterate /k/ope batman

>>64075049 (OP)
For me its late 16th and early 17th century cuirassier armor. Just big and mean.

>>64075066
Checked. Based psycho stiffy enjoyer

>>64075151
I am no horse grrl but i think you need footiness to ride a charger into a group of dudes and cut them

>>64076030
Yr b8 was not humorous and everyone who responded is a faget

>>64075792
Full Knight armor on average weighed 65 lbs at most

>>64075570
>I took an arrow to the knee
>Just didn't give a fuck

Kind of a crazy amount of work to get something to concertina like that on rivets and have no gaps between the sections

>>64075792
thats not true
t. some that did buhurt

>>64075049 (OP)
Heard it being said it was expensive to make but didn't think such meticulous craftsmanship goes into such things.

>>64075151
total midwit death

>>64076030
> holy historically illiterate /k/ope batman

Nice projection

Saw "Swedish Sabaton" and thought something different

>>64075792
>took a fucking crane to lift a knight back on his horse.
Retard alert

>>64076310
>Heard it being said it was expensive to make but didn't think such meticulous craftsmanship goes into such things.
Depends on how much you're willing to pay.
The OP armour isn't for plebs obviously, an average knight with a shire or something might not be able to afford it either.

>>64076424
The op armor isn’t really necessary either, the foot doesn’t flex quite that much and in some places (wrists for example) there’s good reason to deliberately restrict mobility to prevent hyperextension.

>>64076424
A night's shire

>>64076949
>A night's shire
Your short-stack fetish is thinly veiled though not uncommon.

>>64076457
>The op armor isn’t really necessary either
I think it's probably parade armour, which would make it for the even wealthier who could afford to pay 10x as much for armour that will never get need to stop a blade.

>>64075157
Some suits had more and some had less so It must have come down to the individual preference of those who could afford it.

>>64075061
>>64075066
There is a theory that this cock armor was meant for the penis from getting hurt by syphilis or something.

>>64075937
>This is mounted horse armor.
Which is why it's better to articulate to ensure proper footing in the stirrup

Imagine what a pain in the dick it must have been to keep all that shit oiled and from rusting/gunked up after just a day or two of riding around or being on muddy battle fields.

>>64080256
That's why you had your squire do it for you

>>64075797
Anon you can't touch the front of your ankle with your toes lol, the flexibility on the back half of the foot is useless since the back half doesn't really bend at all

Maintenance of riveted joints would likely be the job of a blacksmith, but the knight's squire naturally became skilled at the task?

>>64077225
>short-stack fetish
Those are inchlings. At best they could give you a massage with a happy ending.

>>64081848
>Those are inchlings. At best they could give you a massage with a happy ending.
There's a Piers Anthony story about an alien race sending a kind of synth human with a portal in her cervix to harvest human DNA to replenish their race.
Except they got the scale wrong because they had no point of reference in their remote-viewing and made her fist sized.
They make it work. After the portal is closed, she stays with him.

As industrial ceramics and kevlar production spools up more and more, driving prices down, and as drone fragmentation becomes more and more of the biggest threat to infantry, I have reason to suspect we're going to see a resurgence into "true" body armor. I'm taking 20+ ceramic plate suits with a kevlar gambeson underneath, attached cooling systems, full visors with integrated comms/datalink inside them, the works.

>>64083426
What we're seeing right now are only the precursors of full plate 2.0

>>64083426
yeah but your legs exposed

>>64083484

>>64075792
based

>>64076424
Most folk would be running around in picrel by the 1600s. Before that you'd see a lot of brigandines and chain-plate hybrids and before that you'd see mostly gambesons since even the knights had only chainmail before the 1300s.

>>64083426
>>64083430
Unironically cool shit. I can't help but think we're dealing with the same problems medieval armorers did. We have to use some armor or the attrition rates are going to be too high. At the same time, we need to keep weight and costs down. Some armor already got so heavy we saw knee issues and some nations can't even afford armor for all their infantry to begin with.
>>64083484
Acceptable. You can survive a shot in the leg more than you can survive a shot in the torso or head. There's also an assumption that soldiers are going to use cover or fight while prone.

>>64075049 (OP)
My penus armor be like

>>64079701
There was a king something or other who suffered from syphilis and stuffed medicinal or fragrant herbs into his codpiece to manage the issue. In most cases it was just the fashion of the time.

>>64085065
>since even the knights had only chainmail before the 1300s.
coat of plates has been a thing since the 12th century

>>64076151
>Full Knight armor on average weighed 65 lbs at most
>on average
If made from lead then sure

>>64079701
thats the civilian equivilent
the reality is it is because shirts got shorter and people didn't have pants as we understand them
people wore 'shifts' that came down to about mid-thigh or the knees, they wore as underwear a sort of loose boxer called 'brae' and hose rather than pants were tied to its draw string
this left a bit of a gap as shifts started to shorter
so the cod piece filled the gap
eventually someone figured out to combine it with those and thus we got pants

S'kinda funny to me armor reached its pinnacle right as something showed up and went "Fuck ya mudda". Yeah obviously gunpowder had first appeared around the later 1200s but it's the 1400s-1500s when it really appears as massed infantry fire rather than a weapon you use at a siege

>>64083426
If you run with a what is old is new then we're in that late 13th through early 14th century situation of not full plate but rather bits and pieces linked together.Full plate being your cyberpunk/sci-fi stuff where it is literally fully articulated. If nothing changes and everything that happened before will happen again then watch lasers or plasma be as gunne was

>>64087606
>just the fashion of the time.

I gotta take the ferry but I only got a quarter. Gimme five bees.

>>64089384
Jousting armor was made extra thick since you didn't need to walk around in it.

>>64076296
buhurt is to history what Airsoft is to Desert Storm.

>>64090186
im not talking about history, the question was about armor
armor used in buhurt can be used in the same way it was used 600 years, cant say that about airsoft
no sabaton gets anywhere near 25 pounds
that retardely heavy

>>64090332
buhurt armor and weaponry is about as historical and historically practical, as airsoft is useful on the modern battlefield.
not even trolling here, but the average buhurt kit is crude, overly heavy fantasy plate with little to no tailoring.
compare the average buhurt dude to paintings of 13-15th century armor.

mind you, not shitting on your hobby, its fun.

>>64090468
>not even trolling here
i feel like you are

>>64090186
Buhurt armor is actually heavier than medieval combat armor. There's more an emphasis on safety for Buhurt and combatants don't need to march 10 miles before fighting.

>>64075066
>thou shall be stroking thy shit

>>64083430
Ah, Jinwudun. Their full coverage soft armor is remarkably cheap. The specs check out for their claims, but they have no certifications for 0101.06-applicable torso armor and limited test reports.
Their skirt sees use with Russians and provides total femoral / pelvis coverage.
>>64083426
Based. The biggest hurdle now is providing rifle protection at sensible weights beyond the torso.

>>64090645
>>64075066
Imagine putting a fleshlight in there before battle.
Haha.

>>64076398

>>64083426
1.) frag from explosives is already, and always was, the biggest threat to infantry
2.) the meta is killing with a direct impact, so extra armor doesnt help
3.)
>belarusian flag
this is somehow more vaporware than russian shit

>>64075570
>all that time and effort
>beat by a weight on a stick
>some asshole invents the crossbow
>your ass is still chapped when some other fag comes back from china wirh exploding powder
I can see why uppity knights got so bent out of shape by crossbows

>>64083426
Just wait until you have to take a shit, adjust your underwear or scratch your balls...

>>64091093
Enter: The skirt.