Armour / Discussion

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Was this is some sort of order?

r_b_bergstrom 04 Dec 2012 17:51

This list below appeared on the page until today. At first glance, it appeared to be unstructured and random. Only when I was prepared to replace it with an alphabetized list did I realize that possibly it was actually in tech-level order. Looking at it from that perspective, only Laced Armor seems grossly out of order (being a technologically simpler version of chainmail). The possibility that this might be in order of invention seems to justify preserving the list somewhere.

• Hide Armour
• Wooden Armour
• Leather Armour
• Padded Armour
• Linothorax- rigid cloth armour
• Ring Mail
• Chainmail
• Scale Mail
• Banded Mail
• Splint Mail
• Laced Mail
• Lamellar armour
• Brigandine
• Coat of Plates
• Plated Mail
• Plate Mail
• Plate Armour
• Full plate armour
• Munition Plate

Anyone care to shed any light on that list?

The Colonel 04 Dec 2012 19:48

Indeed, I had it more or less in historical progression (in as much as these things can be) - but the fact that it wasn't obvious that that was the order probably means that we're better off with an alphabetised list.

For reference, the pieces of plate list started at the head and worked down. It made sense at the time… mainly so that I could remember all the bits as I went.

That's pretty clever

r_b_bergstrom 05 Dec 2012 18:13

Thank you for the clarifications. Both lists were organized in ways I'd missed at first glance, but which seem obvious now that they've been pointed out to me. I feel a little silly for having overlooked that.