Michael Anastasiadis sent me this link. At close range longbow arrows cannot pierce 100 Years War breast plates. Cool slow motion segments. Really interesting how the placement of thickened armour and curvature deflect, and sometimes shatter, arrows. Not one pierced the breast plate. The V shaped ridge works perfectly to prevent deflection into the throat or face.
Chain mail is easily pierced and a lucky arrow or deflection hitting a joint or less armoured point would cause serious injury.
It occurred to me that horses were nowhere near as well protected as their riders.
Consider, after the 100 Years War armour continued to improve for at least another 50 years.
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John Edmundson I saw a doco on netflix where they attempted to recreate armour of this type. Interestingly they couldn't quite get it right because the art has been lost but still got the same result testing it with a replica period firearm. Poorer quality steel and …See More
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Josh Barton
Indeed, and for the wealthier knights there would have been a psychological effect - you're tired from the adrenalin rush/panic and walking with your visor down, you can hear people dying but can't really tell what's happened and now you've got to face a line of enemy knight who are rested and motivated from watching the chaos happening in front of them
Alastair Moore The penetrating power of longbows has always been over emphasized. It was the effect of forcing groups of men at arm's to clump together in a mass that was easily dealt with by the English in the melee. Even when well armoured knights would shy away from the fear of a lucky hit and probably some would have removed pieces of armour to aid breathing and prevent over heating. Lord Dacre was killed by arrow at the battle of Towton when he removed his gorget.
Tilman Dang It would be interesting to see how your body inside the armour reacted to the constant hitting from the outside. It wasn't 1 Archer shooting a single arrow at you on a long aproach march over 100+ Meters in heavy armour. And then the chance to actualy hit some Angle or wrist that was not as well protected. Plus the cost of proof armour against equipping some farmers sons with weapons. There is a reason why pike bow and musket overcame armour.
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