So even if you raised your shield or dodged, successfully avoiding an arrow through your eyeball, another arrow would still nail your foot to the ground. Archers aimed at specific targets, sending hundreds of arrows towards them. How? Well, that sky-darkening "rain of arrows" wasn't random, for one thing. Hell, even after guns were invented, well into the 1700s, arrows had a greater fatality rate than just about any other weapon. And forget about pulling it out: aside from tearing your flesh, that was also a good way to separate the arrowhead from the shaft, leaving it inside of you and all but guaranteeing amputation. If you got shot, tissue around the rough-edged arrowhead wouldn't heal, causing infections and abscesses. Arrowheads in the Middle Ages were big and barbed and barbaric. And these weren't the target-practice arrows you usually see on film. īow and arrow production was similarly huge: King Henry V banned poplar wood from being used for anything except the crafting of bows, and, at one point, six feathers from every goose in the country went toward arrow-making. Really, the armor wasn't markedly different than it is now. Depending on who was bankrolling a given knight, a suit of armor could even be tailored to individuals like tuxedos. Sure, it was heavy and sometimes restricted breathing and vision a little, but it was also designed to mitigate that as much as possible.
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A knight in full plate armor could even survive getting trampled by a horse. Hacking and slashing and pounding isn't going to do shit against metal, no matter how big your sword is. Because whether it was a full suit of plate armor or even the skimpier chainmail of foot soldiers, swords, and axes, much like your boyfriend after he's been drinking, just couldn't penetrate.
It's not like soldiers gave up plate armor randomly or because the fashion changed they did it because cannons started exploding the hell out of them, metal codpieces and all.īefore gunpowder ruined everything, armored knights and men-at-arms were basically walking Colossuses. If someone's coming at you with a sword, you wear sword-proof clothing.
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