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Jabrosky
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You may if you so wish. I didn't really have a story to go along with this idea anyway, so I was just throwing out a setting concept.I still say it's a viable idea. I am now tempted to swipe it!
You may if you so wish. I didn't really have a story to go along with this idea anyway, so I was just throwing out a setting concept.I still say it's a viable idea. I am now tempted to swipe it!
Necro, but I'll play.
The world where my series is set has a very low population. They don't have the ability to field huge armies. A thousand people on a battlefield is something they'll talk about for centuries. Disputes are often settled by a dozen knights or men-at-arms, and rarely to the death. Often, these things will end with one side riding off, waving.
It's also extremely hard to kill a knight in armor, something nearly every other fantasy novel in the world can't seem to understand; swords aren't lightsabers. Armor is tough. It's much easier and historically far more common to beat the crap out of a knight than it is to kill them. Historical armored combat between knights is delineated in Fiore's texts, particularly his Abrazare school of armored grappling techniques, which my sparring partner refers to as "judo for psychopaths." Snapping a few of a knight's joints backwards will end a fight much faster than trying to cut through their armor.
When there are major fights between armies in my world, there's almost always an option for a champion's fight, because the loss of hundreds of strong men and women could cripple a region for generations.
I'm as big of a fan of a high body count in fiction as you're going to find, but the fact of the matter is that plate armor evolved from fairly light and easy-to-make chain mail for one good reason.Nothing better than undead topics. And I’ll go off topic!
That’s why I don’t have armies full of people in full plate... not enough dying! But it does lead to wonderful politics and intrigue with the taking of hostages and ransoms. I prefer the era of mail, which is hard as the hells to get through, but they leave a lot more vulnerable areas.
I'm as big of a fan of a high body count in fiction as you're going to find, but the fact of the matter is that plate armor evolved from fairly light and easy-to-make chain mail for one good reason.
The 200lb bow and the sheer, lethal power behind it.
This video is a brilliant demonstration reenacting some armor and arrow tests against the plate and mail used at a fairly representative moment in time. (Malik, please correct me if I'm off base. This is more your bailiwick than mine.)
And more discussion of the above video.
What fascinates me about this video is what this arrow is capable of both against plate and against mail.
Dying of heat exhaustion in the snow, wow.