Re: (TFT) Stewing in Your Own Juices

["Neil Gilmore" <raito@raito.com>]

> I believe that lot of the confusion wrt the unwieldlyness of "full plate"
> comes from confusing the full plate that was the top-of-the-line battle
armor
> used in late medieval times and the specialized "jousting armor" which was
> extra-heavy, single-purpose armor roughly analogous to the highly &
wierdly
> specialized equipment used in modern Olympic games (e.g. the olympic
target bows with
> the long stabilizer rods sticking out in three directions).

The 'garniture' is what you describe. It is a suit of armour with
interchangable pieces for different sorts of tournament combats. Those were
not extra-heavy, just specialized. The heavy stuff wasn't used in battle,
but for jousting after jousting lost any meaning.

Neil Gilmore
raito@raito.com
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