Hypothetical: If native americans (and lets say mesoamericans and south americans as well) had developed iron and steel metallurgy on their own, what would their weapons and armor look like?
(This is a question mainly for the After the End mod for Crusader Kings 2)
To some degree, every now and then.Do you work on that mod?
Even if they developed iron metallurgy there is long way from smelting iron to make iron/steel tools very common. I'd say Bantu people would be good analogue-they used iron knives and spearpoints, but no armour.Hypothetical: If native americans (and lets say mesoamericans and south americans as well) had developed iron and steel metallurgy on their own, what would their weapons and armor look like?
(This is a question mainly for the After the End mod for Crusader Kings 2)
They mostly made it into tools or ornaments through cold-working it, and a lot of the iron working came after initial European contact in the 18th century (thanks to more shipwrecks and of course trade). They did wear armour though, they used strips of wood (red/yellow cedar IIRC) reinforced with elk hide. So perhaps have it reinforced with strips of iron in this case (once the supply of iron through local mining is enough to get the idea across)Didn't the Native Americans in the North West United States in Washington State area work iron that drifted in from Japan? Does that count?
That's exactly what I thought of when I read the question. Plains Indians wore breast pieces made of strips of bone (I think) that could easily be replicated using metal with only simple forging methods.They mostly made it into tools or ornaments through cold-working it, and a lot of the iron working came after initial European contact in the 18th century (thanks to more shipwrecks and of course trade). They did wear armour though, they used strips of wood (red/yellow cedar IIRC) reinforced with elk hide. So perhaps have it reinforced with strips of iron in this case (once the supply of iron through local mining is enough to get the idea across)