Quote Originally Posted by Randarkmaan
Concerning the middle-east and heat, I find it funny that many people forget or do not know that many middle-easterners actually wore quite a lot of armour (chain mail hauberk, lamellar armours of leather or iron, scale hauberks and the Ottomans actually had a sort of plate armour, but not the kind of plate armour seen in Europe, more like the Roman Lorica Segmenta), the genious trick to avoid having all this burn you up was usually to wear loose fitting robes over metal armour, which would keep it from heating up.
Anyway fighting in a hot, humid jungle filled with mosquities who eat you alive and make you sick and devious foliage everywhere sounds like the ninth circle of hell to me, many seem to forget how annoying mosquities actually are!!
I live in such a place, and I'm not sure it's that difficult to manage in a tropical rainforest (but then I'm used to it). Dry socks and underwear are a must, plus plenty of insect repellant to keep the mozzies and their nasty infections away. It will take some time for you to get used to fighting in heavy armor, but as long as you get enough water to replace the fluids you lose, it's not really all that bad. You sort of get used to the heat and humidity after a while, it's the fungus and fever that can kill you if you're not careful.

As for dying of heatstroke in drier climates, one of the two notable fatalities at Agincourt was supposed to have died of exhaustion too, and I don't think France qualifies as arid desert at all.