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ParanoidObsessive posted...

What would you call armor that is mostly either padded cloth or leather with plates of metal riveted into it as an outer layer?

Impractical? >_> The distribution of weight would be a little weird and having the rivets on the inside would likely be a bit uncomfortable unless you had a few extra layers of padding (although I guess a really thick gambeson underneath would probably work as well)

ParanoidObsessive posted...

Not studded leather (that's mainly leather with smaller metal studs, hence the name), and not really splint mail (those tend to be metal strips rather than molded plates), and definitely not plate mail (which is generally overlapping metal plates entirely).

iirc, some variations on the brigandine used exterior molded plates instead of either layered or interior.

WhiskeyDisk posted...

ParanoidObsessive posted...

More of my RPG musings that are probably mostly for Shadow:

What would you call armor that is mostly either padded cloth or leather with plates of metal riveted into it as an outer layer? Not studded leather (that's mainly leather with smaller metal studs, hence the name), and not really splint mail (those tend to be metal strips rather than molded plates), and definitely not plate mail (which is generally overlapping metal plates entirely).

I'm thinking along the lines of the Stalhrim armor in Skyrim, except instead of ice plates, think some kind of metal (either actual metallic in appearance or painted/lacquered to have a color a la historical armors):

http://en.uesp.net/wiki/Dragonborn:Stalhrim#Stalhrim_Light_Armor
http://en.uesp.net/wiki/Dragonborn:Stalhrim#Stalhrim_Heavy_Armor

That's a little overbuilt to be a gambeson, maybe it's something more like a cuir bouilli?



(Sorry to cut in shadow...)

Not sure how functional it is, but that's some fucking beautiful armor.
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