what does /his/ think of Chinese armor?

>>3052340
It's pretty aesthetic and comfy looking.

>>3052340
It's pretty much Azn Cataphract.

>>3052340
>Scholar Fa Bei. I'm Tang Dynasty.

>>3052340
they look really funny no offense

>>3052389
Was thinking the same

>>3052389
>You're a mongolian guy
>Fung Yu

>>3053141
Was crashing this dynasty part of your master plan?

>>3053147
>Well, you built yourself a wall. What's the next step in your master plan?
>UNITING THE DYNASTIES...WITH A UNIFIED LANGUAGE SYSTEM

good looking until that retarded coat

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>>3053178
you mean the brigandine raincoat?

>>3053216
yeah
ugly as hell

>>3052340
is it just me or they're really like turkish army looking

>>3053243
Because it heavily borrowed from Central Asian armor.

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>>3053243
Because they're cross influenced each others for quite a long time. Also, lamellar armour is native to Chinese, long before Turks.

>>3053232
>protects full body
>flexible yet still strong

Qing hated the aesthetics but emphasized pratical use didn't they?

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>>3053643
Qing brigandine armour actually was inherited from late Ming brigandine armour.

Manchus were vassal of Ming, most of their equipments were imported or derived from Ming. They made a little change after Ming–Qing transition but basic styles are still identical.

>>3053643
Hating aesthetics explains the horrible queue, but what practical use did that have?

As a commentator once pointed out: the Qing tried to ban footbinding of women and enforce the queue hairstyle, but met with fierce resistance, and so, as typical of bureaucracy, a compromise was struck where the absurd option was taken for both cases.

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>>3053643
>Qing hated the aesthetics but emphasized pratical use didn't they?
The Ming/Qing had the same types of armor(cotton,mail,brigandine,lamellar).

Though the Later Jin were known to use iron masks,cataphracts as well as some innovations(flared metal cuffs,extra brigandine attachments).

>>3052340
How does this compare to contemporary asian armor? bonus point if you aren't talking about Japan

>>3054261
>comtemporary asian armor
be more specific

>>3054261
seeing as every other Asian nations armor has been influenced by what china had at any particular time period, I would assume it wouldn't look all that different.

>>3052389
My first thought, nice work

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I think what holds back Chinese armor from looking fly as fuck is the lack of awesome looking helmets.

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Swaaaggg.

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>>3052340
I like the ones in the Three Kingdoms (2010) more. Don't know how authentic there are though.

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>>3055546
Just like in my Dynasty Warrior game

Anyone know of any Chinese military based historical fiction written by/for a westerner?

Only shit i can find on good reads is the women whining about revolution or concubines falling in love trash.

>>3055723
Red cliff series is a good movie
Fall of ming, for dirty and gritty western realism