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| Bear-hunting suit |
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| Lantern Shield |
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Pata, gauntlet sword from India, traditionally dual-wielded by windmilling lunatics
Tarch, Russian gauntlet/sword/shield for when you really don't want to stick your hand in there |
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| The notorious lantern-shield, gauntlet, spike, sword-breaker,sword combo from the Kunsthistoriches Museum in Vienna |
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| A jack: textile armour, actually remarkably arrow-proof |
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| Another jack, this is what light armour was really like |
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| Polynesian coconut husk and rattan armour, primitive light armour from across ye sea |
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| Asian ring mail, ineffective light armour for unlikable hirelings |
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| Executioner's Sword for disobedient hirelings |
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| Bespectacled helmets with big stupid horns actually impose a morale penalty on adversaries |
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| Dussack, brutish simplicity of functional form epitomised |
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| Chu-Ko-Nu, Chinese repeating crossbow, short range, very inaccurate but very high ROF |
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| Fairly ridiculous halberd |
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| Grenado, note shrapnel segments |
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| Cranequin Arbalest, a beautiful piece of killing technology |
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| Various nasty flails |
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| Mustachioed helmets impose a more severe morale penalty |
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| Armour for Dwarfs, halflings and belligerent children |
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| Extra thick sapper's armour, bullet proof but obscenely heavy |
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| One of these things |
These are the tools of whatever passed for the constabulary of feudal Japan. On the left is a tsukubo, essentially a mancatcher, designed to get caught in the garments of the criminal and twisted to immobilised the individual, though I am sure this thing could be used to batter someone to death should the need arise. The middle weapon translates as "sleeve-entangler" though I imagine you could get it entangled in someone's ligaments if need be. The third weapon I don't know.
Pangolin scale armor.
ReplyDeleteI'd love to see a compilation of all the super-exotic armours from around the world. Not so appropriate for grimdark European-style D&D but it definitely has its place
DeleteHaha. Belligerent children!
ReplyDeleteThey should hand that stuff out on Sports Day.
The 3rd one (sasumata according to wiki) was used to pin an arm, neck or leg to a wall. Like you would have a bunch of the guards/constabulary/whatever with them and you would surround the rogue samurai and hem them in until they were backed into a wall , where there you could pin them and then disarm them.
ReplyDeleteThese methods were specifically developed against samurai. Anyone else you could just club in the head and throw in jail. You do that to wrong nobles son however and you are going to be examining your entrails by royal decree.
wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sasumata