In your opinion, what is the weirdest armors of the world? Asia, Europe, Africa, Americas, etc
Tree bark armor, reed armor, paper armor, bamboo armor, skeleton/bones armor, skull helmet, etc
Weirdest armors of the ancient world?
In your opinion, what is the weirdest armors of the world? Asia, Europe, Africa, Americas, etc
Tree bark armor, reed armor, paper armor, bamboo armor, skeleton/bones armor, skull helmet, etc
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Re: Weirdest armors of the ancient world?
Paper armor is quite weird i think
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Re: Weirdest armors of the ancient world?
+1 armor... although mithril is interesting, while adamantium is indestructable
skull cups are the best though
Last edited by blitzkrieg80; 11-16-2007 at 20:15.
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Re: Weirdest armors of the ancient world?
Nohing wrong with paper armour though (we're not talking modern wood-pulp paper here you know...). Layer strong paper thickly and stitch and cut into suitable shape, and you end up with a pretty decent sort of body armour. Was particularly strong against armour IIRC.
Not terribly ancient though AFAIK, as the Chinese experiments with it were well into the second millenium AD...
...around the strangest I can recall reading of would be that one suit of - kid you not - gilt pangolin hide the Brits nicked from some corner of India...
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Re: Weirdest armors of the ancient world?
Lol, that's one way of thinking about scale armor though its more like hair armour. Poor Pangolins - they're so cute.
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Re: Weirdest armors of the ancient world?
I think their experiments with paper armor started when they invented paper around the Han Dynasty ~200 BCE to ~300 CE...
Pangolin? Is that the creature that looks like an armadillo? That's basically natural leather-scale armor! lol
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Re: Weirdest armors of the ancient world?
okay then foreskin armor is the weirdest
Unless it is effective of course
Re: Weirdest armors of the ancient world?
That bronze armor they found in that Mycenaean site .
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