What kind of armour is this??

that's some lamellar armor, and it looks like the sort the kievan rus types would wear

>>2970687
The guy is supposed to be a Cuman. Eurasian horse nomads who lived in medieval hungary.

>>2970687
He's a Cuman . They were Turkic nomads

>>2970687
It is called lamellar, mostly used by important keivan rus princes/boyars, cumans and other steppe nomads. I don't know much about the period but the setting of that game which this character is is 1403.

>>2970687
That type of helmet is called a "Tolga" in Turkish culture. It is one of the names of the peaks in Altay mountains.

Most Turkic empires had the pointed helmet atop lamellar armor, from Ottomemes to Seljuks to Gokturks.

>>2970687
It's Turko-Persian. It would have been very common in Russia and to a lesser extent Poland and Lithuania.

you might find this interesting OP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSxFY917UH8

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>>2970687
Cuman-Kipchak Turkic helmet

Most likely Cuman. The Helmets and armor could also be kievan rus, but they weren't a fan of those types of shields.

Cumans were Christians, right? Are there still some of them left today?

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>>2970687
Fun fact, the early Bolshevik headgear, the Budenovka, was designed to resemble the old Kievian Rus helmets.

>>2971556
>Cumans were Christian
No, they were Tengriist but just like many turks the mercenaries who fought elsewhere converted to islam/christiainty
>Are there still some of them left today?
No, they were asimilated

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>>2971299
Its pretty widespread in middle east too

>>2970687

a. mirror armor?

b. varangian

c. lamellar

>>2970687
It looks like a heavily armored eastern styled armor the guys in the background look norse or viking with eastern style shields so Im guessing varangian guardsman and a heavily armored cavalryman (kataphract or clibinarii?) from Byzantium.

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>>2971611
this particular style spread to the middle-east with the turkic soldiers
especially after the seljuk empire

Can someone explain the difference between scale and lamellar?

>>2972081

Yes

>>2972095
thanks you've been very helpful

People who can't grow manly mustaches so they wear a mask

>>2972081

Scale is normally treated to be sewn to a base. Lamellar is sewn to itself. Scale will also be sewn to itself but it needs the base.

>>2971611
That's a bitchin' moustache on that mask too.

>>2972249
ta

>>2972243
what if you pulled off the mask: would they die?

>>2972264
It would be very painful

OP here thanks guys! Now I can waste many hours learning about this in depth to impress the random Street goer!

>>2972353
Ur a big Turk

>>2972524
For the byzantines

>>2972552
Top kek