Post war masks. Why weren't they used more often? Why use

>>3285530
Visibility is shit

>>3285530
Breathing and vision.

Virtually all helmets that cover the full face were cavalry helms.

Besides that getting a spear or a mace into the mask would smash it in your face and knock your teeth out, preferable to dying but not fun.

>>3285555
Didn't they wear protection below the mask to avoid that?

>>3285561
Some padding is likely but I wouldn't have source on it.

The bottom may also have been attached to a collar to make it less likely to smash into your face but overal it wasn't the best solution for facial protection.

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>>3285555
if vision is an issue why people used shit like this?

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FU, these count

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>>3285650
The choice between not seeing everything or getting a couched lance planted in your face is easy. Besides that one can raise the visor easily while still having a lot of protection.

>>3285676
plate armor looks so fucking boring

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>>3285709
Why do you think that?

>>3285720
I think that because it's fucking bland looking. Even greek hoplites looked better.

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>>3285720

>>3285709
t. Homofaggot

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>>3285725
Maybe you haven't been looking good enough.

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>>3285736

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>>3285740

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Asaro mudmen have some sick masks.
Imagine walking in the jungle at night at coming across this

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>>3285748

>>3285709
historically it was painted with a coat of arms or something but Victorian renewals opted for a boring, silver look

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>>3285750
ur gonna get eaten

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>>3285762

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>>3285765

>>3285657
what the origins of that reproduction ?
it looks sick as fuck but i cant find anything about it or where i can buy one

>>3285854
Not the anon who posted it but I think they were used in a game where people would throw dull javlins at each other and that it was to protect their faces/eyes. I think that roman standard bearers and cavalry sometimes used masks like this in the imperial period.

>>3285896
i mean that reproduction in particular.

i know its a reproduction of a roman cavalry masks but i cant find who makes that particler model

>>3285971
Not sure if that helps but I think it was found at Kalkriese, the actual place of the battle of the Teutoburg forrest.

>>3286272
that's interesting so that implys it was used in battle rather than just parade

>>3285542
/thread

>>3285555
really /thread

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>>3285756
Really? I had been under the impression that the coat of arms was displayed on the shield, and on fabric coverings here and there.

>>3286456
Not necessarily. Most everything the legions carried would have wound up left on the ground at Kalkriese, or carried off by the victors.

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Sick design

>>3286456
Roman writers also report they were used in battle in the Middle East. Saying they were impervious to arrows everywhere but the eyeholes.

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>>3285530
Best war mask coming through

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Top tier african war mask. Notice how niggeresque it is

>>3285650
Pull down the visor for protection when you're preparing to wade through volleys of missile fire or face a cavalry charge.
Pull it up for visibility and air when you're getting into a melee.

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>>3285657
>Yo dawg I heard you like faces so I put a face on your face on your face

>>3285709
Don't bait unless you're a master baiter.

>>3286500
Normans are best knights.

>>3285726
what are those weird crosses on their vestiments called? I know they are french in origin (probably)

>>3287802
fleur de lile

>>3287802
It's a similar cross to the Fleur de Lis, I think thei knights on the right are either Maltese or maybe Spanish from what I can tell.

>>3287828
no no, I was talking about the black crosses from the dude on the dexter side of it, I've seen them before on the flag of a french province thats near england, I

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>>3287828
>>3287845
FOUND IT
in heraldry its called an ermine

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>>3287852
Good find chief

>>3287846
Brittany

Its supposed to represent ermine or something.

>>3287852
>>3287924
ermine blows

vair is where it's at

>>3287852
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