anything protects against slashes

slashes are weak af

and easily blocked

thats why spears are a thing

It is a modern BS that "those savages wore no armour"

They did

i know

@Uksio before lynthorax armour greek hoplites whore plate so idk what the fuck Lucy is talking about. Hell even ly thorax is pretty descent armour

everyone back hen worse some manner of armour

Not as effective as later armies, but they didn't want to die

t. martial expert lucy of west cousinfuckertown

Hell greeks upgraded to chainmail later on too

except literal peasants who are getting their town raided

hedonism enslaves

u are slave of ur happiness

"happiness"

During the era of Macedonian supremacy post Alexander

australian aboriginees didnt <:slurpgon:583424900732157956>

@SideTracker only the rich ones though. Most people could not afford a metal breastplate. So that's not exactly a universal thing there.

inb4 muh myrmidons

@Tato evenn if that was true - and its not - you cant justify that being enslaved is a bad thing without any philosophical foundation and those foundations are not right or wrong.

I like how laminated cotton replaced the metal breastplate in greek army

Like legit the Seleucids even based their infatry after the roman pricipes and early legionaries @Uksio

Freedom of movement > stiff metal breastplate

^

dis

Yop

Tbf, thats why chainmail is so great

Also scalemail

Sec

freedom of movement isnt hard with metal

you just need overlapping plates

@Redneo i could explain it and i could make it right objectively but it will take time and i wont gain anything from it

Chainmale is indeed one of the leaps in armour tech

so yeah

instead of one stiff plate

imagine not fighting with just a shield and spear, lmao

with proper joints

easy to move in

clothes are cumbersome

https://youtu.be/qzTwBQniLSc