On how effective armour has been

[XSamatan]

A group of students from the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay has recently tried to re-build a Linothorax.

Their outcome is quite impressive, although they reconstructed it only by written guidances as linen is not the consistent material.


Here is their documentation: http://www.uwgb.edu/aldreteg/Linothorax.html

An article from discovery.com: http://news.discovery.com/archaeology/linothorax-alexander-great-armor.html

A German translation may be found here
http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/technik/0,1518,675814,00.html


What do you think about the validity of their result?

XSamatan

[antisocialmunky]

That's not hte most flattering armor. A little too big for hte guy at that. :-p

Still pretty neato.

[Antinous]

Dude that is pretty cool.

[Vasiliyi]

I have to say the last 3 seconds of the video, they had an arrow bounce off the linothorax. If it was truly that strong, that is impressive.

[ziegenpeter]

I have to say the last 3 seconds of the video, they had an arrow bounce off the linothorax. If it was truly that strong, that is impressive.

Arrow=!=Arrow