Lady Abigail:

knight of rook:

 

ROFLOL! That's the deadliest weapon! LOL! And only mothers poses it! LOL! They have special equipment. LOL! "the look" and "mom radar" the mom radar only works within a 60 ft radius though, after 60ft, you can do whatevever you want! LOL! Within 60 ft, well, you can't even think something without her knowing it! LOL!

Big sisters/momsintraining can do it too! 

Yes, they can!  

jt400:

knight of rook:

 

Correct!

ACB, an arrow is verry different from the sword, Justin knows what he's talking about when he made the above post. And an arrow shot from a long bow, well, it worked VERY WELL!!!

And Justin, about your other post, "wouldn't a hard thrust penetrate?" Yes, LOL! But you can penetrate anything with a hard enough thrust! The probolm is, making the thrust hard enough! It probably would on average, unless I had a good coat of mail, but if I were to take you on like that, I wouldn't use the broad sword, I would use the halberd! And as far as the wieght, I wouldn't be abble to strike as quick, or parry as well, but if I did strike, a good down ward blow, you would have to move pretty quick! And if you were just a fraction of a second too slow, sorry, but you're either dead, or wounded very badly.

Am I getting annoying?

Ok, I have a little time now. What is a "good" coat of mail? Riveted chain mail? Yeah, I guess I would have to make myself pretty scarce in the general area of that sharp steel! LOL!

 I was going to ask that too, what does a good coat of mail consist of, I will probably show my ignorance in this post because I don't know very much about armor and stuff. But does a good coat of mail have the chain mail and the hard plated armor? I don't know, can you have both at the same time?

ACBookworm:

jt400:

knight of rook:

 

Correct!

ACB, an arrow is verry different from the sword, Justin knows what he's talking about when he made the above post. And an arrow shot from a long bow, well, it worked VERY WELL!!!

And Justin, about your other post, "wouldn't a hard thrust penetrate?" Yes, LOL! But you can penetrate anything with a hard enough thrust! The probolm is, making the thrust hard enough! It probably would on average, unless I had a good coat of mail, but if I were to take you on like that, I wouldn't use the broad sword, I would use the halberd! And as far as the wieght, I wouldn't be abble to strike as quick, or parry as well, but if I did strike, a good down ward blow, you would have to move pretty quick! And if you were just a fraction of a second too slow, sorry, but you're either dead, or wounded very badly.

Am I getting annoying?

Ok, I have a little time now. What is a "good" coat of mail? Riveted chain mail? Yeah, I guess I would have to make myself pretty scarce in the general area of that sharp steel! LOL!

 I was going to ask that too, what does a good coat of mail consist of, I will probably show my ignorance in this post because I don't know very much about armor and stuff. But does a good coat of mail have the chain mail and the hard plated armor? I don't know, can you have both at the same time?

I'm not sure what it's made of either.

ACB, and JBR, You appear to know what chain mail is, but a good one, depends on the metal, and how closely and well each individual link is put together, a chain is only as strong, as it's weakest link. The plate you are probably thinking of, is called a breast-plate, it is seperate from the chain mail. And yes, you can have both on at the same time.

Am I right Justin, or am I off?

JBR:

Lady Abigail:

knight of rook:

 

ROFLOL! That's the deadliest weapon! LOL! And only mothers poses it! LOL! They have special equipment. LOL! "the look" and "mom radar" the mom radar only works within a 60 ft radius though, after 60ft, you can do whatevever you want! LOL! Within 60 ft, well, you can't even think something without her knowing it! LOL!

Big sisters/momsintraining can do it too! 

Yes, they can!  

OC!!!

Star Dust:

JBR:

Lady Abigail:

knight of rook:

 

ROFLOL! That's the deadliest weapon! LOL! And only mothers poses it! LOL! They have special equipment. LOL! "the look" and "mom radar" the mom radar only works within a 60 ft radius though, after 60ft, you can do whatevever you want! LOL! Within 60 ft, well, you can't even think something without her knowing it! LOL!

Big sisters/momsintraining can do it too! 

Yes, they can!  

OC!!!

knight of rook:

 

ACB, and JBR, You appear to know what chain mail is, but a good one, depends on the metal, and how closely and well each individual link is put together, a chain is only as strong, as it's weakest link. The plate you are probably thinking of, is called a breast-plate, it is seperate from the chain mail. And yes, you can have both on at the same time.

 

Am I right Justin, or am I off?

jt400:

knight of rook:

 

ACB, and JBR, You appear to know what chain mail is, but a good one, depends on the metal, and how closely and well each individual link is put together, a chain is only as strong, as it's weakest link. The plate you are probably thinking of, is called a breast-plate, it is seperate from the chain mail. And yes, you can have both on at the same time.

 

Am I right Justin, or am I off?

That sounds right to me. Typical armor for a knight, I believe, consisted of a padded leather or cotton arming jacket, then a chain mail hauberk, then plate armor (a breastplate). For the most part, it was the same for the whole body. The best chain mail that I know of, for combat, is made of welded steel rings. I don't know if the welded steel is historically accurate though, do you knight? If I was going to buy a hauberk I would probably buy one with butted aluminum rings, not very strong, but lightweight and it would not rust.

Didn't the knights ever suffer from heat stroke or something like that? It seems like they wore allot of clothing, and I would think that it would be overpowering.

I was going to try to find a cross-section of the different layers, but this is the best I could find. It is a pretty good picture of late medieval armor, note the mace. And very long spurs! LOL!

 This is sort of what I was talking about, this is about the best picture I could find! LOL!

Here is another one.

Here is what it would look like on the back.

I hope I am not getting carried away, but I love talking about this kind of thing! 

 These people have a pretty good selection of mail, although you can buy some of the thing cheaper elsewhere. Personally, I think the riveted stuff looks bad, but I guess it is tough. You would not catch me making mail of any kind though! It seems like It would take forever! LOL!

Here is a picture of some up close.

jt400:

I was going to try to find a cross-section of the different layers, but this is the best I could find. It is a pretty good picture of late medieval armor, note the mace. And very long spurs! LOL!

 

Wow! That looks something like what I saw in the "Arms and Armor" exhibit in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

ACBookworm:

jt400:

knight of rook:

 

ACB, and JBR, You appear to know what chain mail is, but a good one, depends on the metal, and how closely and well each individual link is put together, a chain is only as strong, as it's weakest link. The plate you are probably thinking of, is called a breast-plate, it is seperate from the chain mail. And yes, you can have both on at the same time.

 

Am I right Justin, or am I off?

That sounds right to me. Typical armor for a knight, I believe, consisted of a padded leather or cotton arming jacket, then a chain mail hauberk, then plate armor (a breastplate). For the most part, it was the same for the whole body. The best chain mail that I know of, for combat, is made of welded steel rings. I don't know if the welded steel is historically accurate though, do you knight? If I was going to buy a hauberk I would probably buy one with butted aluminum rings, not very strong, but lightweight and it would not rust.

Didn't the knights ever suffer from heat stroke or something like that? It seems like they wore allot of clothing, and I would think that it would be overpowering.

I think they did. 

JBR:

jt400:

I was going to try to find a cross-section of the different layers, but this is the best I could find. It is a pretty good picture of late medieval armor, note the mace. And very long spurs! LOL!

 

Wow! That looks something like what I saw in the "Arms and Armor" exhibit in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.