World's Largest Suit of Armor

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[Th3BritishGuy]

Popular medieval way to kill a knight in shining armour: get some peasants, pull the knight off his horse or knock him over, stand over him with a hammer and an iron peg and simply hammer through his armour through either the faceplate or the chestplate. If you ever go to one of these fine places that have examples of real medieval armour, you will see many suits with these pegs in them. Not a nice way to go. Economical way to deal with a knight problem though. Not very chivalric mind :D

[elgostine]

tell that to the mongols.

[Virsidus]

@Th3BritishGuy, yeah, not to much honor in that lol, but if that knight wants you dead, you gotta "cheat" and kick his ASS :D

[DistendedPerinium]

@YuriPRIME There are some cases where peasants stood against heavy cavalry. However, each of these engagements the peasants had time to prepare the field against a cavalry charge (digging pits, making pikes, etc). In most cases, peasants (and infantry in general) got slaughtered by cavalry though.

[YuriPRIME]

@YuriPRIME ...just too easy to won with arrows. Check out battle of Vienna 1683, Turks had 138 thousand huge army! they lost just 15k - morale broke, the rest fled. And that's how it works. This argument would be valid if it was a fantasy game or something. In reality there was no heroic peasants standing against cavelery action. They saw couple rows owned by lances, crushed under hooves, then cut open with swords, the rest panicked and fled... thats how people work, they are no Zerg from SC

[YuriPRIME]

@YuriPRIME ...most of them just fleed. Saying that there would be a formation of super-heroic peasants who get slayed trhough row and row and row of their group just to band up and on the pile of bodies pull someone off the horse? Strange, cause I've never heard of such thing besides some exceptions that are carried mostly in legends. Should that be truth, we would see that best anti-kinght units in all armies would be sheer numbers of peasants, but they werent. Even if, such formation would be

[YuriPRIME]

@DCTriv Yeah, maybe I don't have enaugh pro knowledge about how it worked in Uk and France... if they did charged formations and fought in such way to be overwhelmed by peasants... well sucks to be them :P If you check out battle records of eastern heeavy cavalery, like Polish winged hussars you'd see that 4 thousands of them disposed of 30 thousand jannisaries.(Battle of Khotyn) And no one was stupid enagh to block them with sheer number of boddies :P because seeing such onslaught

[DCTriv]

@YuriPRIME I'm sure many a brave Knight thought him and his brothers in arms invincible when charging simple footsoldiers, only to be overwhelmed by the sheer number of bodies once in the thick of it, to be then pulled from his horse by lowly serfs and having his life ended by a peasant with a rusty iron peg and a smithing hammer. Having said that, If another opposing Knight was present, his life would most likely have been spared in favour of demanding a ransom payment from the Knight's family.

[YuriPRIME]

@Th3BritishGuy You know that an armed plated knight would never stand alone? But most likely come at those peasants with 100 brothers in arms with lances and crushing them under horse hooves? ;)

[ADAMKTN]

It took me all day to watch this video -

[DanDavis10]

More defensive strength than butted.

When testing mail armour use riveted mail covering a soft target (ballistics gel) from a reasonable distance. Not butted mail covering wood from point blank.

Someone said they layered the mail up to an inch thick but that doesn't change much at all there's still the same space in the rings instead use a tighter pattern. (6in1; 8in1 even)

Ranting done.

[DanDavis10]

I hate these arguments about mail armour.

First off very few people still make mail correctly. (in terms of the armour of olden days)

It would've been riveted and even that alone improves the strength substantially.

an arrow being shot at butted mail simply has to push open a single round bit of steel wire to puncture the mail; this kind of mail would be used mainly for sword blows, spreading the force out preventing cuts.

riveted mail has each and every ring completely closed and has much