I don't see why a poorer warrior would need or have armour? It's still an expense he can't afford when it's not going to get used much, and a leather jerkin on its own isn't really going to save your life so seems pointless. That much leather is still going to be expensive for not a great deal of de...

Sheep skin I'd imagine, with boiled leeks stitched horizontally across for added strength. On your head, a sauce pan, or a novelty hat.

Even with the volume up the woefully tone-deaf sceechings of the Norman camp would have made the tune unrecognisable.

Damn it keep stirring!

Don't understand the question, as already said, the Harolds and Edward died in 1066 so their influence ended. William had the biggest impact in messing up the country and making it the diluted French hell hole it is today

I saw this last night, or night before when I was browsing. Looked good.

I have also found on very small saxon buckler sized shields I've used, most shots end up on the boss or face, mainly because you're using it actively, the boss is used to disengage opponants weapons, if it misses the boss, it nicks the face, but you rarely use the edge to absorb the blow like you wo...

Geeet out. You Norman types are armoured head to foot, if hitting each other with a mace doesn't hurt how is a little edge on a shield rim going to hurt. I suppose shoving someone with a sield could cut them, especially on clothed parts. Tin clad wang monkeys should be fine though.

How would a shield rim ever come into contact with someone? Certainly less so than a burred sword or axe blade and they go flying over just about every battlefield.

There is no point to this entire thread, other than to wind me, and many others, up.

Alan_F wrote:
Dan, watch out, there appears to be a huge lump of earth following you about!

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central europe, not england.

Oh right! sorry mate, stupid me, I thought we were talking about england here! silly me, central europe yeah? I should have thought a burmese fighting knife would be perfect then....

read the whole thread before posting reply! I did. Word for word. I don't know what group you play with, and what their rules are on ethnic kit but I'd imagine if you want to portray a blacksmith, turned horseless knight(?)then a burmese fighting knife probably wouldn't have been your weapon of cho...

Also the sheer psychological effect of having several thousand arrows coming down on top of you is reason enough to keep shooting surely, especially in a period where infantry aren't really using large shields. Volley after volley is going to force the commander to either leg it, or attempt a charge...

youngish blacksmith, who spend many years making weapons and armor for others. he gets tired living the same life as his father and his father before him so he decides to go to war (enlist or as a mercenary). before he goes he makes himself some kind of basic plate armor, maybe with lames or scales...

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Pffft...it's the local tribe's ritual man-fat collection barrel. Every warrior had to abstain the night before a battle and then make a contribution into the barrel first thing in the morning. This was then thrown into the bog as an offering to the great god Bookhakee.... There'll be a digestive in...

In my defence, it was one archer, at long range.

Many archers would make a hedgehog of this monkey.

Hur hur, I've blocked blunt arrows with a dane axe, but they go so slow through the air you could pick them out the sky. A sharp one on a warbow is going to do a Matt Bunker on you.

Wasn't the sutton hoo's all metal rim secured by stictching and clamped at intervals.

Only if he can hit them. Spears are generally longer than a dane axe meaning you've got less range, and since you've got no shield, less protection.

I wear all my tunic arms tight on the forearm, I dont think I'd be able to get anything underneath them

How would you be able to fit riot gear under your tunic arm

To reiterate DO: Decide time period - join group - let them tell you what kit is acceptable - Purchase kit according to their rules DO NOT: Buy kit when you haven't decided a specific time period you want to do. What is good for 6th C Saxon is not good for 11th C Saxon. - Buy kit when you don't have...

Was wonderfully cheap. Made by Thorkil, this was the first helm with full decorative plates that he made, I gave him alot of the specifications and diagrams so I got it for a good price. I think he's selling them for twice what I paid for it, I got it for just over £600 with shipping. It's very much...

Ah well thank you, it's one of only two copies of the Valsgarde 8 helm done to a reasonable standard of reproduction that I'm aware of.

Well it is a crested helm...

I was quite suprised, at Kelmarsh this year in the volley firing for Agincourt, how quite a dense volley can miss just about everyone. It leads me to conjecture that the chances of being hit at all at a distance are less than you might think instinctively. Maybe you just had bad archers? At Hasting...

I'd have thought a chin strap wouldn't be able to go under the chin while the ventail is up, I spose you'd have to tie the chin strap under the chin, then fold the ventail over the top of the strap. If that makes sense. Depends if there's any gaps round the ventail while its up to allow for the chin...