Armor & Weapons

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>>2768642
This is the weapon that conquered Lower Egypt circa 3,500 B.C.

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Sticks and stones eh

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I give you the Koteka. African penis armor because when you're a real badass you only need to protect one thing from calamity.

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>>2768671
now that's what I call a sword fight

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Im getting a serious boner for renaissance armor which ive never had before

>>2768686
Lazy, uninspired, and churlish.
"the real horn of africa" would work much better

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>>2768692

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>>2768702

>>2768692
Lol is his twig and berries in some kind of special cock pocket?

That bulge is obviously artistic liscence

>>2768700
now that's what I call a sticky situation

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>>2768671
IT JUST KEEPS HAPPENING

>>2768707
>That bulge is obviously artistic liscence

I think its a cod piece

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>>2768723
I saw on a documentary that those things ruing their penises because of lack of hygiene, they get diseases, one guy had his entire dick covered in wart like things, it was fucking disgusting.

The fact that 16th-17th century tercio and troops of the line shot and stabbed each other with absolutely no armor, has to be pure stupidity from a military tactics standpoint.

>>2768729
>save tens of thousands of dollars on armor cost and upkeep
>save money but not having to transport armor
>save money but not having the soldiers get worn out quicker and have needing more food

>>2768729
Uh, what? I can't speak for the entire era, but Tercios almost always wore helmets and breastplates, and I believe most troopers did really up until the line infantry era.

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>>2768726
>craftsman, this codpiece surely isn't ample enough
>b-but my leige the measurements were precise
>but my codpiece is so much smaller than Lord Enemesis' codpiece...
>Ah. Well my Lord I think I have just the thing

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>>2768736
>caring what women find visually appealing
>implying the warts aren't just tactical ribbing

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This thread has to live

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Imagine being Hannibal and seeing hundreds of thousands of these bad ass mothafuckers charging him down lol

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>>2768997
Please be joking

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Winged hussars are obligatory

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Norman knights in harness

>>2769054
>light cavalryman
>13th
>full mail armor

Typical osprey bullshit.

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Byzantine=Best Empire

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>>2769451

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>>2769461

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>>2769463

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>>2769468

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>>2769469

>>2768961
What's he wearing

>>2769451

aventails are cool

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>>2769469

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>>2769553

>>2768671
What is that made of? some kind of plant?

>>2769506
1) Arming cap. Prevents the metal coif and helmet from being uncomfy and crushing into your skull when struck
2,3,4) Mail coif with aventail
6,9) Gambeson, a padded jacket that is very important in preventing your mail armor from crushing your skin when it gets struck
10,11) mail chausses to protect the legs. Not sure what 12 is
14) His underwear and pants with suspension for the leg armor.

>>2769048
>man clearly wearing Breton heraldry
>"French"

GALLAOUED GET OUT

BREIZH ATAO

BREIZH DIEUB

REEEEEEEEEE

>>2769576
>Not sure what 12 is

Could 12 be extra protection for the knee because of the shield? Or to make it more comfortable when the shield hits your knee.

>>2769576

12 looks like a knee brace, which any weight lifter can tell you is very handy when you need your legs to stand firm, for instance in a pushing melee

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>>2768642
Best melee weapon coming through

>>2769866
*laughs in plate mail*

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This is the armor worn by the Maratha Empire.

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>>2769937
the helmet

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>>2769949
The weapons they used

>>2768702
WE

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>>2769965
And what they would look like in general

>>2768671
>Koteka
That's New Guinean

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>>2768642
I see you fellas like Osprey, well so do I

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>>2769188
>Typical osprey bullshit.
Don't get me started on their medieval Chinese volumes.

>>2768656
fpbp

>>2770633
I honestly wish osprey posters would commit suicide.
I've had to argue with people who thought plate was impossible ot move in an only worn by "kings and castle guards" and that you'd be "swarmed by a man in chain".

Their source?
Fucking osprey.

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>>2768702
Shaquelle is lost in between worlds of academia and the hood. In between defending his thesis on King Arthur and talking his best friend Mo'Shawn out of robbing the local 7-11, he lives a life of nonstop excitement. One night during an epic study binge, Mo'Shawn drags Shaquelle off to an IHOP, not knowing that there Mo'Shawn has planned a robbery. There, Shaquelle is accidentally shot in the head. Shaquelle finds himself transporting to another realm, and finds himself actually on the round table of King Arthur. Can he use his knowledge of the hood to lead the knights to victory? Time is ticking as he has hours to live in the ICU, and his thesis is due in the morning; and in Arthur's court he will learn about true friendship, solve the nagging question of his sexuality, experience the secrets of his thesis first hand, and seek the holy chalice that will heal him and bring him back to his reality. But if Shaquelle can transport from modern times to King Arthur's realm, perhaps Merlin come to Brooklyn, and terrorize the modern police force using ancient magic? And who better to serve Merlin than Mo'Shawn. Together, they solve the nagging question of their sexuality, and in the end, we learn that maybe reality and fantasy are not all they are cracked up to be, and that the best kept secrets are right in front of you.

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>>2768997
>""versatile""

>>2770664
It depends on the historian writing it. More poorly documented periods of history also seem to attract worse historians.

>>2768707
>what is a cod piece

>>2768997
kill yourselves

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reminder that aesthetic>protection

>>2770758
Why not combine the two

Plate and Gambeson > Plate, mail and gambeson
If you git gud you don't need mail at all
Also mail is ugly as fuck when worn with plate

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>>2770783
>mail is ugly as fuck when worn with plate

fucking pleb

>>2770798
When is say plate I mean European Plate

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>>2771447
Hamata>Segmentata

>>2769451
Looks elvish

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>>2771525
Turkish*

>>2771539
you mean turks stole the byzantine look

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>>2771548
The Hat on Emperor Manuel is very Turkic.

You see the same similar hat in Tartars and in the Turkic invaders of late Jin/Fragmentation Period China.

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>>2771590
Elements of Turkic fashion have been incorporated in Byzantine fashion, where they are called something like "Skythikoi" meaning "Scythian."

Since as far as the Byzantines were concerned, every bow-twanging, horsenigger barbarian culture is Scythian.

>>2771590
true it does like very tartar, I mainly thoughed you where refering to the armor though not the hat. Can't argue about the hat

>>2771608
Yeah, was talking about the hat, bb.

>>2769971
WUZ

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<3

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Byzantines under heavy Sassanid influence

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>>2769866
not best but certainly the most aesthetically pleasing

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>>2772411

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>>2772417

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>>2772431

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>>2772433

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>>2772437

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>>2772440

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>>2772442

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>>2772443

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>>2772373
Why do people find that aesthetic? Its garbage

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Do any of you faggots even own arms and armor?
If so post em'!

>>2772446
The one in the front left
I think I came

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>>2772553
This, that helmet is sexy af, what type is it?

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>>2772576
It reminds me of a stetchhelm but I can see that it clearly isn't. But is is clearly made for jousting.
Also found this describing that very suit.
http://www.antiquetrader.com/featured/odd-collection-of-crustaceans-tucked-in-world-class-militaria-sale

>>2772605
Also called heaume or frogmouth helmet.

>>2772605
Thanks, that helmet looks sexy as well.

>>2769046
What's in the box, ammunition?

>>2771469
Literal pleb tier.

>>2772546
No, we are not weirdos.

>>2769046
>Gee Billy, 3 crossbows

>>2768656
is that a stick with a half circle stone on top?

>>2768671
Why don't they protect the balls? The balls are much more important in terms of pain.

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I happen to think that mail, scale, and plate all look good ;^)

>>2773439
Pretty much.

>>2770664
Graham Turner does beautiful drawings with at least a semblance of historical accuracy for many different time periods. Unless you can fill a thread with art/pictures not by him you should lay off a little. No one is claiming Osprey is a 100% accurate source.

>>2770698
In AAVE the prefix Sha- is used for female names, and Mo- doesn't exist

>>2771590
>You see the same similar hat in Tartars and in the Turkic invaders of late Jin/Fragmentation Period China.
This type of felt hat predates the Wuhu,Cao Cao was the first to implement this hat(similar in shape to the Western Zhou leather helmet) on a nationwide scale for the military.

Cross referencing(Zhongguo gudai jun rong fu shi(Ancient Chinese military armaments and clothing) their Shu-Han foes used it was well.

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>>2772576
Armets.

>>2772605
Not even close.

>>2772919
Speak for yourself Pic related.

>>2773439
Its a shaped haft with an upside down, shallow cone of stone.

>>2773741
>Shaquille O'Neal
>Moniqua Plante
Wrong on both counts, anon.

>>2772451
I fucking love Byzantine, Kievan Rus, and other designs that are inspired by cataphracts.

>>2772366
It still boggles my mind how the fuck did the Muslim Arabs who fielded light-infantry and light-cavalry could annihilate Byzantine and Sassanian heavy infantry, heavy cavalry, and even mounted archers.

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>>2772451
>>2774743

>>2774749
Light-cavalry were always the strongest in the human history.

>>2768671
They don't seem to be niggers, they seem melanesians, the ones related to abos.

>>2774749
Probably because the muslims had one of the best general in history at they side and the ERE and Sassanids had lost they best men in war already, while the muslims had a veteran army of fanatics going vs garrison troops.

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>>2774743

You are a man of taste

>>2774749

Well to be fair both the Sassanids and the Romans were exhausted from fighting. But the Arabs were led by a very talented general

>>2768671
Those are Papuans, not Africans. Closest living relative of Homo Denisovans and least amount of African DNA out of anyone else in the world.

>>2770585
>vair ancien, or and gules

noice

>>2769937
Reminds me of Dark Souls

>>2772373
Literally a machete with a crossguard, what is the appeal?

>>2771482
Damn I love this art

>>2769476
Why isn't he wearing shoes?

>>2773446
You dont die from bloodloss ifyour balls are hit or cut

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>>2772546
>>2774630
i just have a small collection of classical swords and a few world war 2 stuff.

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>>2768692
Everybody thinks about the Medieval period, but it is really during the 16th and 17th Centuries that the Art of armorsmithing reached its apogee both in the technique (complexity of articulations, level of cover, resistance, weight distribution) and aesthetics.

does anyone have any pictures with hospitallers

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>>2780834
Their armor was nothing particular for the time. Only their tabard was different.

>>2768692
Its early modern era. It starts at 1500 AD

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>>2768642

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>>2782009

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>>2782004

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>>2782013

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>>2782016

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>>2774630
>Armets.
not all of them.
Also the perspective on the left one in the front row isn't helping but I'd say armet too. or some kind of Hybrid

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>>2782020

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>>2782024

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>>2782012
I've always liked the aesthetics of mountain pattern armor,too bad it was mainly ceremonial.

>>2768642
a stick with a rock on the end doesn't get to count as a weapon you shitsicle.

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>>2782583
???

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>>2768671

>>2768671
>africa

Found the uncultured swine who never read National Geographic.

>>2768997
except that's an imperial set of armour, republican uniforms would have looked like this>>2769062

>>2768671
It is 2017 and these cavemen never had the thought to protect anything other than their dicks?

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>>2782022
I missread. I though >>2772576 meant in his own pic. >>2772446 is a combo of armets, close helms, burgeonets and savoy helms.

>>2782583
Stop being objectively wrong. Pic related. The rock on a stick is the starting point of most human technology.

>>2768671
Some of those guys use a pipe that they smell every now and then as a guide. This is a lost sense of modern humans, these people react to situations my smelling their own pheromones.

>>2784267


these guys
>>2782724

>>2777448
>blyat