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PraiseTitties
Now I want to go back to playing kingdom come deliverance
Maraak
'Ello Henry!
ordinaryyeti
Tanks for this. I’m sure there armor detailed posts, but this was well-sworded.
HamsterFightClub
Solid post. Download most these images.
HD2composer
IDontLikeSandItsCoarseAndRoughAndIrritatingAndItGetsEverywhere
The art museum in philly has a really awesome exhibit on suits of armor & weapons if you ever get a chance to check that out!
VileSlay
The Met in New York City also has a pretty dope arms & armor section. 14,000 pcs from the 5th-19th centuries.
GadenKerensky
Medieval warfare and then suddenly tanks.
Gizzie
Civilization games in a nutshell
HappyPlumeria
This entertained me and made me look interesting at a bar... thanks!
Alkuam2
MAKE WAY FOR TOG!!
AtillatheGun
be wary of torpedoes.
Painpanepayne
That is absolutely brilliant. +1 for niche history joke
justanotherimgurian123
Well, that escalated quickly
linuxlizard
I think the D&D Player's Guide had more polearms.
Freightshaker
I've found it interesting that while culturally and physically separated, weapons/armor developed along the same lines in the east and west.
JohnnyGossamer
Obligatory: The Polearm Emporium http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0136.html
RantMannequin
Now do starfleet
Pokegeologist
Check out Ex Astris Scientia or the ASDB online. Pages and pages of stuff.
Pokegeologist
Also this page has full diagrams, most are FASA or beta canon stuff. https://www.cygnus-x1.net/links/lcars/blueprints-main2.php
Pokegeologist
I always feel weird whenever I'm reminded the M60 Starship (M60A2) exists. Great collection, OP.
burbage
Spider helmet...
MaximumRadius
Got confused for a moment, because the last one is in reverse order to all the others.
LeonRoland
Lol the M60A2 Starship? Quite an interesting pick.
illegalacorn
that tank evolution pic is pretty simple compared to the rest
Heffe3737
Downright wonky, really.
Pokegeologist
One of my professors was a retired LTC and spent most of his career as a tank commander. Hated the M60A2 and the M551 Sheridan.
Pokegeologist
The M60A3 was his baby though and still believes it's the last best tank we had.
TheMajesticHarpyEagle
An embarrassing pick.
ApexAlpha
Still better than the one man turrets in the mix. That's be a stupidly hard job.
ArmourersBench
Very cool diagrams!
bobbob1016
Did someone steal your sweetroll?
AynRye
15th century Italians: I want my swords EXTRA THICK
PunaniTsunami
It’s funny how technology goes from small to big & small again
ArnoldBrownschweiger
What about the evolution of breast plate stretchers?
sunriseswede
That last one was quite a leap forward! Nice post, @op.
YaBoiDugz
Favorited for DnD purposes
CotterPyke
And in the 20th century, there is finally CHECK MATE:
CotterPyke
JustBoone
Ah yes armor, perfect for all occasions!
GadenKerensky
Including when you need to break the Stalemate on the Western Front.
HockeyFighter69
@ilookfuckingcool
ilookfuckingcool
That's so neats!!
HockeyFighter69
Thought you'd dig it
ilookfuckingcool
I'd love to learn more about it and heraldry, I'm quite a fan
HockeyFighter69
As am I. The current US Army heraldry is pretty cool too. I know yer not big on modern stuff but I just found a book bout it.
ilookfuckingcool
I would still be interested
HistoryHayden
Crazy too look at the armor post 15th century and think "wow the Americas are being colonized and they're still wearing this"
elpurofresh
Great point!
miserablepileofsecrets
If people are going to try to shoot and stab you, you want to be protected somehow. The plate armors were not common, though. Expensive shit
Cheomesh
Why would that be strange?
TheWarHymn
More the reason to wear them as the natives didn't have much that could defeat them. Course, gets tiring lugging it around in the wilderness
LandSquid12345
Yeah, plate armor was used well into the 20th century (Still is in different forms). For example, many people wouldn't guess it but this
LandSquid12345
picture was taken in 1913: https://archive-media-1.nyafuu.org/wg/image/1527/23/1527233183872.jpg
ApexAlpha
Looks like a cavalry unit (not sure?), they would have learned a very harsh lesson in the next year. For the armour and horses.
thatmangodude
Actually Poland still used cavalry up until the beginning of ww2 when they showed up to fight off the blitz on horseback
ReginaKasteen
They were dragoons (dismounted to fight) and they had special horse-packed anti-tank guns. Horse-drawn artillery was used through the war.
themanwhoisalternatelyrudeandpolite
"Within a few weeks, most French regiments stopped wearing the cuirass, as it served no real purpose...formally withdrawn in October 1915."
GadenKerensky
Proper WW1 was heavy as fuck. Literally thick steel plates because thinner armour just couldn't stand up to bullets or artillery shrapnel.
LandSquid12345
They are cavalry; French Cuirassiers to be specific. France entered WW1 with 12 (!) Cuirassier cavalry regiments.
Drakitomon
Hey, our military still wears plate armor. Level IV multi hit cermaic plates. I've lugged mine on far too many rucks.
ApexAlpha
True, but modern armour works well. The plate in that pic might as well been tissue paper in WW1.
plymouthvaliant
Boy, I sure wish I could read this
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plymouthvaliant
Thanks!
hotsssss
worse quality than google images GJ
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hotsssss
bueno bueno
TheRicM
@TheHelleri cool stuff
TheHelleri
OOO! Always like me some more good charts. Thanks. I love how in the first image 650 looks a lot like 1675. Firearms changed the game fast.
TheRicM
Right on, yeah I like the helmet stuff too, interesting
TheHelleri
The shields one is also missing the coolest kind. The judicial shield.
TheHelleri
the "spiked shields" shown are superficially similar. But their smaller and non-vented. Worn as heaters.
TheRicM
Thanks for the info!
Irreal
Just the 1675 guy has a beefy breastplate instead of nothing.
TheHelleri
The linothorax that the 650 guy is wearing is an organic form of breast and back plate. It's surprisingly difficult to penetrate.
Irreal
Very unlikely that he is wearing one. If at all he would be wearing thick layers of cloth, but not glued into a hard plate.
TheHelleri
We've no idea the full extant of when it was used as it and the later works which may have depicted it were highly decomposable...