Arms&Armour thread! Post historical weapons and armours!

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bronze age collapse is best

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>>2120923
You know it, bronze-bro!

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>>2120909
French military engineers in siege armor seem to an underrated category.

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>>2120935

bronze age armors are for disgusting fatrolls

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>>2120940

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>>2120935
And these seemed to be a foreshadow of WWI

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>>2120944

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>>2120956
1500-1700 armors

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>>2120959

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>>2120960

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>>2120962

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>>2120953
So dieselpunk
https://fr.pinterest.com/macheterod/body-armor/

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>>2120969
>https://fr.pinterest.com/macheterod/body-armor/
Nice images

anyone got any ye olde russians?

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Ok, since nobody's posting I'll dump what I have.

Roman armors

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>>2122141

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>>2122141
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I believe these are Dacians.

>>2123469
This pleases me.

Go on please.

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>>2123483

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>>2123486
all i have

The best are always 900-1250

Chain coats are sexy af

>>2123507
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>>2123483
>>2123487
Nice.

>>2122159
> slaughter celts and their slashing weapons by stabbing them with sturdy short swords
> centuries later adopt celtic style longswords
Wat

>>2123695

large, robust formations of infantry aren't so good at dealing with highly mobile, marauding warbands.

the later Roman army was more of a low cost, high endurance counter-insurgency force.

>>2123695
it's a cavalry sword
he's just dismounted in the illustration

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Have some weapons.

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>>2124707

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>>2124710

>>2124707
For what purpose is there an axe head instead of say, a bayonet?

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>>2124713

>>2124715
Not sure, perhaps they though thrusting with knife on a small firearm doesn't have as much force as using the whole weapon as a handle for an axe.

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>>2124707
This one looks fake.

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Late Medieval

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>>2125884

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>>2125887

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>>2125891

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>>2125948

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>>2125950

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>>2125953

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>>2123507

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>>2120932
I think Greek armor is easily the most aesthetically pleasing, dude. Everything about it is so fucking cool to me.

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>>2126440
Yes i like the aesthetic of greek arour, i also have this picture that historian say is a perfect image of how the greek soliders looked

>>2126258
Those leeks never fail to make me laugh.

>>2122333
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>>2122348
>those pointed elbows and feet
>damn near 0 visibility
Looks aesthetic as fuck but what were they thinking?? Is this what happens when you let fashion designers design your combat armor?

>>2127204

They were thinking they weren't going to do much foot combat and preferred the extra protection during a charge

>>2127204
>pointed feet
They are actually very convenient to put in the stirrups.

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>>2126822
I would also like to get some context, from what I can infer by that guy's face is that he's some Hatsune Miku fan defending his waifu's honour.

Here´s some weird Indian shit, I guess related to those guys because both used Ellephants

>>2127561
>Grappling lizards
>Whip swords
>Killer Frisbees

>>2120942
faggot

On the Rerebraces of this armor you can see a leather liner where there are holes. Does this attach to an arming jacket, or what? How does the armor hang off you? And if so, where would you get one? All I can find is padded gambesons.

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>>2127204
You're underestimating the ingenuity of Renaissance people. Armour pieces were often modular. You could simply remove the parts that would be bothersome to wear in combat.

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>>2127204
>>2128519
Also, I think you're underestimating the amount of visibility sallets offer.

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>>2122156
>everyone else has badass swords
>get assigned flying the imperial kite on a stick behind them for morale
>cut down by gladius after romans take a liking for my kite and hunt me down through the ranks

>>2128263
>Gauntlet-swords

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>>2120909

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>>2130518

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>>2130521

>>2127204
>pointed elbows
Literally what is the disadvantage to this? If you're forced to grapple with someone it's a fucking huge advantage to have spikes on your elbows.

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>>2130522

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>>2130525

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>>2130529

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>>2130530

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>>2130532

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>>2130536

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>>2130539

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>>2130541

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>>2130544

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>>2130549

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>>2130551

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Fearsome in a 1v1

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>>2130554
>Off-ByOne Kenobi

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>>2130555
It'd be a good fight
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>>2130564

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>>2130566

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>>2130570

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>>2130572

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>>2130575

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>>2130577

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>>2130583

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>>2130588

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>>2130593

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>>2130599

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>>2130603

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>>2130606

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>>2130607

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>>2130609

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>>2130611

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>>2130612

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>>2130614

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>>2130618

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>>2130622

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>>2130623

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>>2130627

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>>2130638

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>>2130641
>Double-tap in weapon form

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>>2130643

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>>2130644

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>>2130646
All I got

>>2124707
probably because an axe has more noncombat utility than a bayonet, and for a pistol of that sort a more natural motion is swinging rather than thrusting

>>2127204

The points serve a purpose, namely to deflect incoming blows. The visor sits close to your face so you can get a good range of vision. Think about looking through a key hole. From a distance you can't see anything, but if you get close, you can see much more.

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I love helmets with facial features because they would look either funny or fucking terrifying depending on how good the fighter was. Imagine if there was a shitwrecker with a moustache helmet that makes for a good story but losing your squad (or whatever military units were called back then) to a guy in plain helmet? That's not as interesting.