| Nuvendil said:
Chainmail faded out for exactly that reason dude. It weighed way too much and didn't distribute weight worth anything. You were carrying a ton of weight just on your shoulders. Again, from Wikipedia: By the 14th century, plate armour was commonly used to supplement mail. Eventually mail was supplanted by plate for the most part as it provided greater protection against windlass crossbows, bludgeoning weapons, and lance charges. However, mail was still widely used by many soldiers as well as brigandines and padded jacks. These three types of armour made up the bulk of the equipment used by soldiers with mail being the most expensive. It was sometimes more expensive than plate armour.[18] Mail was heavier, more expensive, and less effective than full plate armor so there was no reason to have your all important knights running around in it. So your whole point is kinda moot, depending on the time period of the game. Assuming it isn't the early middle ages even knights aren't going to be primarily wearing mail. Many won't be wearing any mail. Also, armor weight is going to decrease as the size of the wearer decreases. A woman is several inches shorter than a man = all articles of armor weigh less. Further, you can't look at an average woman and ask if she could wear knight's armor when it wasn't even average men who were knights. Male knights underwent extensive training to be good at what they did, so would a woman. I'm not saying men and women are equal in strength; it would take an exceptional woman to keep up. But to say that female characters should be clad it two steal bra cups and some skin tight leather when they go into battle (which some games still seem to insist on) is just crazy talk. They would be more than physically capable to wear partial plate, full plate, brigandine, scale mail, etc. |
most of the middle age was way before the age of plate armor and the high point of knights was in the high middle age, thats before plate.
knights were average men trained to be warriors. you can train an average women as long as you want, she will never be able to be a usefull knight and even a normal warbow is too big for a average women.
there are good reasons why women normaly didnt fight on the battlefield in the middle ages.
female warriors have two sources in western cultur, amazons and valkyries, both not known for wearing alot of clothes or armor. and well both lines are caucasian, and atleast the valkyries are often pictures as blond women with huge boobs.
