Recent content by 20mikemike

Good points. The main reason I brought up the possibility of injury from falling is that the weight of the armor wasn't keeping the French knights on the ground, but a concussion/broken neck/being trampled by other knights might just do so. I lack the knowledge of horses that you have, so I...

If both the knight and samurai are mounted, the samurai with bow and spear and the knight with lance and sword, both with armor at around the year 1350, I would have to estimate that the victor is going to be whoever plays smarter. Neither party is going to know his enemy's strengths or...

I apologize if that list makes it seem like I'm coming off harsh or jerk-like; I wanted to give a good number of examples to prove my point that armor is indeed pretty light, but primarily that my information was valid. I agree (and there's a lot of proof): there was heavier armor, which was...

Aside from about a decade of in-depth research (note, about 5 of those years were before college), and a thesis, here's a partial list I had to compile a little while ago; I selected armors, parts of armors, and especially two-hand swords. Also, the list does not include the collection of...

I'm afraid you've got a LOT of misconceptions taken as "facts": That's really a matter of opinion. Again, opinion. I know for fact that's one you can't give to Europe with regard to archery, but much was learned during the crusaids, and eventually, the Europeans would learn how to...

THAT is truly the best answer!

And who wrote the account, a historian, tactician, combatant? Considering that we still have armor from the times of the Battle of Crecy, we know that it did not weigh nearly enough to debilitate a man; most examples spanning from the 14th to mid-16th century only weigh between 45-65 pounds...

Well, if that's you vote, but actually, just the opposite has been recorded over and over in history: mounted knights were vulnerable to pike squares, dismounted knights tore the pikemen to shreds; read Machiavelli's Art of War or any account of pikes meeting armor from a primary source. The...

I'd say the knight. Despite myths, and this was posted way earlier, well-made European armor was really the finest protection in the world and by the arrival of the cap-a-pied plate suit or harnisch, worked both defensively and offensively. Even if disarmed, the knight knew how to fight, and...

Just to set the record straight, there was some inaccurate info posted about AIM/ACE with the F-14 vs the F-15: "Durning ACEVAL/AIMVAL at nellis between 1975-78 the USAF tried to validate tactics and types of missiles. Near the end of this engagement a forbidden conflict was arranged(F14 vs...