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Cromm:
--- Quote from: Bill Skinner on July 28, 2009, 01:44:30 am --- For a weapon that was only able to kill horses and bounce off plate armor
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HHHHmmmmmmmm OK......
Diligence:
I just read a book by Bernard Cromwell called Agincourt which although fiction, is based on the real life events of the battle of Agincourt (in as much as is known from historical accounts).
Maybe you have read this book, but if not it seems that the sheer number of in flight arrows would be a "rain of death", even with medicore armor. 5000 archers at 5 arrows a minute = 25,000 arrows a minute....that's some serious firepower.
Cheers,
D
Phil Rees:
--- Quote from: svaldrin on July 28, 2009, 05:10:15 am ---Ahh i see well its not all French armor but its a good website http://www.armourarchive.org/armour_dukes_burgundy/
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This is all tournament armour .... none of this would have ever seen a battlefield except the Sallet or the Bascinet
acker:
Here is a doku about it, thea are saying that the armor was made from steel :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ib8kGCFpJRo&feature=related
bow-toxo:
--- Quote from: Horace Ford on July 28, 2009, 05:08:55 pm ---
--- Quote from: svaldrin on July 28, 2009, 05:10:15 am ---Ahh i see well its not all French armor but its a good website http://www.armourarchive.org/armour_dukes_burgundy/
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This is all tournament armour .... none of this would have ever seen a battlefield except the Sallet or the Bascinet
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Or parade armour. Unfortunately, by far the most historical armour still around today is, like the armour in this website, from the sixteenth century or later, when much of it was to show status or look cool.
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