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Oct 15, 2006 · These "stud and splint" armours are more like "reinforced or stiffened" formed or hardened leather armours. I believe the metal was only an additional protective measure. Can I say for sure that there were no plates inside the cover?
Cool, thanks for that. I asked in the other thread because some of the discusion seemed to be about 14th c armour, and someone had posted an image of a guy wearing chain and plate, but with brown lower legs. Seemed semi related, as it struck me as the sort of thing that might apear in art to be "leather armour" but was not leather by itself.
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I've been out of medieval reenactment for more than 10 years. Here is a link to the book published in 2011 on the evolution of splint, lamellar and scale armour in Byzantium and Georgia 10th-12th century The Evolution of Splint Armour in Georgia and Byzantium: Lamellar and Scale Armour in the 10th-12th Centuries.
59 votes, 17 comments. 6.9K subscribers in the Armor community. It’s legit. If you look at the Wikipedia article for splinted armour there’s picture of a historical example. There are a lot of examples in early plate before larger metal billets become available to armourers and they are able to make solid plate limb protection (greaves first, then gradually replacing splint everywh
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For example, you might wear plate arm armour 0.8-1mm thick. The curvature will mean that most arrows will hit at angles, and will hopefully glance off. An arrow hitting square-on at short range might penetrate. Again, such a wound will be much dangerous than a penetrating wound to the torso. Accept that your limb armour won't give adequate ...
The splints are narrow metal strips arranged longitudinally, pierced for riveting or sewing to the foundation. Splint armour is most commonly found as greaves or vambraces. It first appears in a Scythian grave from the 4th century BC [1] then in the Swedish Migration Era; [2] and again in the 14th century as part of transitional armour, where ...
Aug 8, 2022 · Viewed 4k times. 9. For example, +1 Leather Armor has the same total AC as nonmagical Studded Leather Armor, and +1 Splint Armor has the same AC as nonmagical Plate Armor. Unlike with magic weapons that overcome resistances on dozens of monsters, there doesn't seem to be much point to having armor be magical "just for the sake of it".
