And mail is much easier to maintain, because you just have to wear it, while armour plates have to be polished.
And mail is much easier to maintain, because you just have to wear it, while armour plates have to be polished.
Not if you wear it, because then the movement of the links against each other prevents corrosion. But if you are not wearing your mail then it requires as much maintenance as a plate armour.Sorry, no. Both require regular maintenance to avoid corrosion. For the record plate mail was often painted to retard corrosion, hence the black armor often seen in period paintings. Unpainted plate, chainmail, and other metal armors were regularly cleaned and polished by the wearer or his servants.
Not so; mail is the more flexible of the two. Plate was adopted because it offered better protection (no holes, and it's angled to deflect blows away from the wearer, which mail cannot). And tales of men vaulting into the saddle wearing full plate are nonsense; it's much too heavyfor that. They could mount normally, though; tales of them having to be lifted into the saddle are true of only a small minority. A properly made suit of plate does not restrict the wearer's movements; it does restrict his vision and hearing, though.
Not so; mail is the more flexible of the two. Plate was adopted because it offered better protection (no holes, and it's angled to deflect blows away from the wearer, which mail cannot). And tales of men vaulting into the saddle wearing full plate are nonsense; it's much too heavy for that. They could mount normally, though; tales of them having to be lifted into the saddle are true of only a small minority. A properly made suit of plate does not restrict the wearer's movements; it does restrict his vision and hearing, though.
Plate is more expensive, in that it requires more metal to make, and heavier. On horseback that does not matter so much, because the difference is minimal to the horse, but on foot wearers of plate armor will be slower and tire more rapidly than less well protected troops.
Plate is also less labor intensive than mail, but the armorer has to be more skilled to make plate than mail. And if the armor is damaged plate is much more difficult to repair than mail, which only requires the replacement of the rings to fix.
And mail is much easier to maintain, because you just have to wear it, while armour plates have to be polished.
That's only the case if you do not wear your mail but keep it on display. That's something experimental archeologist have found out.You know what it takes to clean Mail? It involves a barrel full of sand and vinegar and then rolling that sucker around and around till the rust is gone.
And do not take everything for granted re-enactors tell you. Those plates are made out of modern alloys and modern men are larger (and stronger) than men from the medieval age.
Well, if I go to a museum here in Germany I see uniforms and armour that would not fit me and I am considered small with an height of 1.68m. I doubt that those were made for children.
Sorry, but no.Can we have a picture?
And all plate armour are custom made, while mail does not have to be.I can't say anything valuable but, i would think that is an armour made to the mensuration of the noble. If you pay a lot, you'll have a armour perfectly made for your size.
Not only in Germany. Diet and furniture do influence the size.Besides, even in 1960, the average size for Germans was 1,68m. It only changed in the second half of XX.