Mongol Lamellar Armor was Awesome #shorts

[raowraow]

I can’t believe they found this 1500 year old video of this Mongol shock trooper putting his armor on

[maxine]

The fact that after he said piercing and slashing damage and didn’t round it out with bludgeoning made the DM in my heart sad

[-nvmanyhow]

In addition to being rather simple to make and maintain, lamellar armour also provided a good range of motion compared to something like scale armour. And good mobility was definitely important to the mongols since they mostly fought horseback. In Asia, lamellar armour ended up becoming more popular than scale armour specifically because it was much less restrictive to the user's movement.

[spaxxor]

Jack of all trades, master of none is often better than a master of one.

[palehorseman]

Don't forget the silk undershirts they would wear. Silk can be woven tighter than a lot of regular clothing, so it can offer a slightly better level of protection

[le_marc]

One thing the blacksmith I know (he made knives, mostly) said is that it's 'better to have things that break but easy to fix'. I think the same applies here too. The protection might not be the best but it gets the job done. And you can maintain it easily too

[BioHunter]

Always loved the look and flexibility of steppe lamellar. It literally is "It just works."

[hugom]

Lamellar was prevalent in Asia for a variety of reasons but one is that archery was very common and such types of armors are especially effective against arrows and offered good flexibility

[BlckDg]

I've always loved the look of lamellar armor.

[advanceringnewholder]

The durability problem might not be an issue too much since you aren't really fighting 24/7. My suggestion may be that they repaired it in downtime. and since it's segmented plate, you just replace the plate

[dimasakbar]

I thought he already look badass but after that mask, he got even more badass

[zanderdev]

What was also great about this armor is that is was extremely recyclable due to the little plates being individual pieces. You could theoretically take the broken ones out if you had the time and replace them after, or just scrap the entire thing for parts. Since the little plates were easy to make, you could mass produce them far easier than any plate armor

[henrikaugustsson]

The overlapping plates would surely result in a lot of excess material, so it must be quite heavy. A breastplate is only that particular plate, no extra material, but harder to come by and maybe less flexible. Lamellar like this needs to overlap, and then there’s the binding, and you still need some padding.

Very cool, though.

[thepbg]

He has got it in one. Lamanour armour was an ideal generalist armour, being flexible and good at protecting much of the body: as due to it being many plates on a flexible base (often leather or padded cloth), it could more easily be shaped to the body like clothing unlike more rigid armours. Another decent advantage was it was simple to source parts for, we have evidence of Lamanour being made of bone and wood and when using metal you didn’t need to forge a large singular plate which was difficult to make if you lacked a lot of iron or had poor quality metal. It’s why samurai armour was often Lamanour or used a lot of Lamanour sections, due to the poor quality ore from Japan making plate mail impractical on a large scale.

Really the only real ‘issues’ were it being time consuming to make, not being as strong in specific areas like plate armour being against slashing and piercing. It was also a pain to maintain, as when it got savage you had to see all those plates back on.

[thewrathfulbadger]

I’ve always figured something akin to that with modern ballistic armour technology would be next level. There’s a company out there founded by a former delta member that makes steel plates coated in Kevlar that can take repeated hits quite well while absorbing the spall and shrapnel with the Kevlar. I imagine a thicker version of that in smaller plates would be a really effective modern version of shock troop armour. For those curious it is Predator Armour and the stuff is honestly next level I am really surprised no big channels have covered it.

I’m going to add an edit here as I’m sure someone’s going to mention it. Ceramic armour is an option problem with ceramic is that after a round or two for what’s its rated for it’s usually completely or otherwise compromised. It’s why in a scenario where I either must take repeated hits or cannot guarantee a replacement plate after getting hit especially in a scenario where getting such supplies are impossible. I’d rather take a ballistic steel plate and wrap it up in thick Kevlar to eat spall. Because you can train yourself for extra heavy gear. You cannot train immunity or otherwise protection against bullets.

[lorenzmaut]

if you think about it the hordes could ask vassals to make the plates, and move around the small plates with a trading caravan, and that means repairing this Armor doesn't need a forge or a special building, just a few tools and a someone that knows how to repair, keep and make more armor, so this means they could use this armor in the campaigns far away from their home.

[puddel]

The plus-side to lamellar is that it breathes pretty well and the plates and cord can easily be replaced.

[allstarwoo]

Honestly if we were still making lamellar armor they could improve it's durability with a stitch locking pattern. I was reading about medical sutures and the nice thing about a stich locking pattern even if one stich gets cut the rest will resist coming loose. At the end of the day you're at the mercy of material work fatigue but still it could definitely improve it's durability.

[mathieubordeleau]

Lamellar armor is by far my favorite when playing as the Khuzait in Mount&Blade II: Bannerlord. They are essentially Mongol.

[RickandPenny]

I love the Lamallar in Banner Lord. Looks awesome.