I can't believe 16th century is considered ancient... I'm getting old.
@lars9925
6 жыл бұрын
Yes, this label is misleading...
@alexandruianu8432
6 жыл бұрын
Relative to modern armors designed to stop firearm projectiles, these are all part of the same ancient lineage.
@HaloFTW55
6 жыл бұрын
Well... “Liu” is an ancient name.
@matthewbabao2553
6 жыл бұрын
its BC not AD. 16th cent. BC
@lupsastta90
6 жыл бұрын
Ivan Lee So is lee
@GuitarsRockForever
6 жыл бұрын
Good, but my favorite armor - plot armor is not on the list.
@heretyk_1337
5 жыл бұрын
Best of the best. You can run at enemy naked, and they will not be able to hit you anyway...
@TactiClaus
5 жыл бұрын
@@heretyk_1337 I hear NPC women have the same style of nude armor
@heretyk_1337
5 жыл бұрын
@@TactiClaus Exactly why enemy can`t hit them
@rotanux
5 жыл бұрын
The original deus ex machina lol
@raymondrenick4828
5 жыл бұрын
that trumps everything else lol
@wesley.3250
5 жыл бұрын
#0- *the Viking muscle armour...*
@Zulanderr
5 жыл бұрын
and beard for protection
@sebastiantorrez8563
4 жыл бұрын
Too many movies and series on you bud read some books okay, then come here good boy!
@ilradiodemo8747
4 жыл бұрын
@@Zulanderr is a joke idiot
@josiahm.8711
4 жыл бұрын
@@sebastiantorrez8563 ever heard of a joke
@sebastiantorrez8563
4 жыл бұрын
@@josiahm.8711 nah you got me there
@granddukethedan7029
6 жыл бұрын
Really like that you covered an armour of a warrior who is rarely talked about (No. 10).
@matthewmuir8884
6 жыл бұрын
I believe I once saw that armour in an episode of Ancient Discoveries years ago. It was in an episode about the Trojan War story and the Myceneans.
@ousamadearudesuwa
6 жыл бұрын
Hoplites and their variants are almost rarely talked about.
@ousamadearudesuwa
6 жыл бұрын
My bad this is because the warriors using it is almost forgotten in history.
@mondaysinsanity8193
6 жыл бұрын
Yujizakai // Horrors and gaming i dont think hoplites are that forgotten just everyone knows about em so no one talks about it naw what's truly lost to history is the ethiopian "hoplites" that were at the battle of troy...its even right in the illiad but no one ever talks or even knows they existed when I heard of em i was like wait what Ethiopian hoplites???
@ousamadearudesuwa
6 жыл бұрын
@@mondaysinsanity8193 Ethiopian Mercenaries during Mycenaean Greece? Nah man the Mercenaries came from Numidia
@NUSensei
6 жыл бұрын
Great video. One of the most fair, balanced and well-considered comparisons I've seen.
@metatronyt
6 жыл бұрын
Glad to hear that and thank you for watching
@nikolasrollins9334
Жыл бұрын
@@metatronyt it's sarcasm
@samnunnink7575
11 ай бұрын
@@nikolasrollins9334Stay salty
@nikolasrollins9334
11 ай бұрын
@@samnunnink7575 Stay in the basement
@xanderhebert6257
5 жыл бұрын
I finally understand “studded leather” armor, thanks brigandine!
@lilosnitch3247
5 жыл бұрын
Worn by studs
@Cyricist001
6 жыл бұрын
What?! No bikiniarmor?
@aysseralwan
6 жыл бұрын
I think he wanted to keep it unisex and bikiniarmor was historically female only armor. Just my thoughts why he wouldn't include this masterpiece of armor tho 🤔
@avixka7751
6 жыл бұрын
aysseralwan wait, Bikini Armour exists?
@aysseralwan
6 жыл бұрын
@@avixka7751 no we're making fun lol
@psychoaiko666
6 жыл бұрын
Yes it is! Haven't you ever seen the documentary series "Xena, warrior princess"?
@stayfrosty8470
6 жыл бұрын
Bikini armor aka level 100 armor
@49havannah
6 жыл бұрын
metatron went from jesus to caesar in one year.
@buckwheat219970
5 жыл бұрын
Looks more like Leonidas to me...
@AlexanderDiviFilius
5 жыл бұрын
Caesar haircut, maybe. The beard is decidedly not Caesar though.
@tylermech66
5 жыл бұрын
@@AlexanderDiviFilius yeah, looks far more like a greek than a roman
@davidtuttle7556
5 жыл бұрын
@@AlexanderDiviFilius Nah. He looks decidedly Hadrian lite.
@ΔομναΣ
5 жыл бұрын
@@tylermech66 His nose betrays that he is in fact, Italian
@LowenKM
3 жыл бұрын
Excellent overview, thx! Was also surprised to learn that a typical medieval knight's metal armor actually weighed _less_ than the aprox. 60 lbs of gear a modern infantryman often carries now.
@helphelper9549
2 жыл бұрын
Yeah but the knight was Calvary. I would like to see a comparison of what the late Republic Roman infantryman carried .
@daffydlandegge3843
5 жыл бұрын
🤣😂 I cannot help but think of the Dendra soldiers squatting down, tucking their knees and shrugging their shoulders to turtle their legs and head inside the armor. (Like a turtle)
@zayn1173
3 жыл бұрын
The ultimate form of protection, an impenetrable barrier
@kaichi23
6 жыл бұрын
This is actually a very useful video got GM/DMs to show their players when teaching them the basics of what is meant by different types of armour.
@captainonomatopoeia
6 жыл бұрын
Knights were pretty much the special forces of the Medieval times. It boggles my mind why general public think that knights clunky soldiers who are ungraceful as an elephant and only wielding a sword. Knights at a young age were trained. Time and resources were poured in to make them elites of the battlefield. Expert masters teaching knights to be versatile with their weaponry. But sure. Lets just assume they’re just foot soldiers with higher level armour that has +10 defence.
@pypy1986820
6 жыл бұрын
They are not special forces. They were bunch of soft arrogant aristocratic rich boys blowing daddy's money to acquire every battlefield advantage at obscene price points and mistaken it for gallantry and skills. No organized army would field counter parts to noble knights of late Medieval periods because they were prohibitively price inefficient: who would pay the price of a modern main battle tank equivalent but can still be overwhelmed easily when outnumbered. It's much cheaper and more effective to hire 5-6 men at arms/ranged mercenaries or 3 light cavalrymen and surround and overwhelm the single knight in a suit of plate in nearly all conceivable situations, which was exactly what English did in 100 years War and everyone started to do after that War. The inefficiency of knightly warfare is fully exposed in 100 years war. A army that is at least 10 times more expensive to field can still have a substantial chance to lose to bunch of rudimentary men at arms with swords & boards and bows & arrows. Are you serious? If you want to know how ineffective a knightly army is, all you need to do is research all the English victories in the 100 years War; especially the Battle of Agincourt. What's the point of the knight centered military doctrine that costs 10 times more when a bunch of men at arms who are much cheaper can be just as good if not better under the right circumstances?
@clothar23
6 жыл бұрын
The same reason modern day armies field tanks despite the fact a single fire team with the right equipment and training can take it out easy peasy. And as you say it's far cheaper and easy to train and equip a few blokes off the street than to buy a tank . But their attitude aside Knights were the tanks of their day. Sure they can be killed under the right circumstances but even the most battle hardened man at arms is going to be slightly hesitant to throw himself at a ton of horse flesh carrying a man in a suit of steel . After all no sane man is suicidal. And in the initial charge that Knight and his friends are basically a unstoppable wall of steel doing a good 20 kilometres a hour , go ahead do that math. It's some serious physics involved. And even the most illiterate potato digger can figure it out. Never underestimate the mind game, battles are fought as much in the mind as they are in the field itself Also I am really tired of people bringing up the 100 years wars. The English victories in it can be attributed as much to French incompetence as it can to English tactics.
@asuka7309
6 жыл бұрын
ravenpy Are you seriously saying that nobles were HIRED to show up on a battlefield? man-at-arms literally means heavy cavalry, both nobility and mercenaries are man-at-arms. Oh, you're trying to prove your point with the battle of Agincourt, I'm sorry, didn't know I was talking with someone who's mentally disabled. (also the English lost the 100 years war, and the French cavalry still played a major role in making them lose)
@clothar23
6 жыл бұрын
Asuka-san Mate I hate to break it to you but there is a slight mistake with your claim. Men at Arms are never nobility or if they they rank so low on the totem pole they are basically commoners. Nobility took to the field as Knights or squires depending on their age. Men at Arms are the professional soldiers of their day, and can simply be the standing army of a Noble . Being a Mercenary isn't a requirement to be a Man at Arms. And in a way yes Noble were hired to show up on a battlefield. Their social and political rank along with their fiefdom was in fact their wages. They had to maintain armour and horse for themselves, and equipment for a certain number of men which varied based on their noble rank. A Duke for example was expected to show up with far more men than say a Viscount. About the only thing you got right aside from the English losing the 100 Year war was that Men at Arms often found themselves atop horses in battles. Usually as result of their Lord favouring cavalry over infantry. Or if they were particularly successful mercenaries. Horses were a significant expense, more so if they were warhorses . And maintaining a cavalry especially on the march was a daunting prospect , just keeping them fed was a hard enough task. Keeping them fit for battle was a even worse chore.
@asuka7309
6 жыл бұрын
"A man-at-arms was a soldier of the High Medieval to Renaissance periods who was typically well-versed in the use of arms and served as a fully armoured heavy cavalryman.[a] A man-at-arms could be a knight or nobleman, a member of a knight or nobleman's retinue or a mercenary in a company under a mercenary captain. " Man-at-arms literally means nothing more than well-trained heavy cavalry, nothing more. It has nothing to do with social standing. Every knight is a man-at-arms, not every man-at-arms is a knight. Discussing semantics isn't going to change a thing, nobility wasn't hired for a wage. Nobility had a set of rights and privileges in exchange for a set of obligations, end of story.
@romanace3432
5 жыл бұрын
If European plate armor wasn’t number 1 this list would be invalid.
@wu1ming9shi
4 жыл бұрын
I mean you're literally covered in all plate armor. Ofcourse it would!
@بێزۆرگتێربۊرگێر
4 жыл бұрын
+Charles Ramsbottom aha and what is that supposed to mean? You are saying a democratic decision by the British people to regain autonomy over their own country subverts the OP's statement?
@randomelite4562
4 жыл бұрын
Jimmy Klorol He could be living in the UK
@بێزۆرگتێربۊرگێر
4 жыл бұрын
+Jimmy Klorol I'm German not Arabic. And why is it a mistake? Are you one of those people who like to dismantle sovereign states, defined by peoples grown over thousands of years and turning them into random, indistinguishable administrative units?
@بێزۆرگتێربۊرگێر
4 жыл бұрын
+Jimmy Klorol Why are you talking about things if you have no clue about them? My name is in Arabic script but it is a German word. It even uses non-Arabic letters. I agree with the rest of the statement up until the part about the EU. The thing about the EU is that the UK never joined it in the first place, what they joined was the European Economic Community which then turned into the EU. They wanted to be part of a trade union that worked together on economic affairs and ensured cooperation and friendship among European countries, NOT part of a political union that takes away sovereignty from its member countries increasingly and also does not care about what defines Europe, which is its many different historically grown peoples and the borders and differences between those peoples.
@lavarwilliams4187
6 жыл бұрын
I stumbled into your channel 3 days ago and I’ve been fascinated by the historical facts and the knowledge that you possess , Great channel 👍🏿
@metatronyt
6 жыл бұрын
Welcome among the noble ones :)
@patrickmccurry1563
6 жыл бұрын
Whenever I'm reminded of asymmetric armor, I wonder how many, if any, suits made for left handed combatants have been found.
@empress9554
4 жыл бұрын
Right?
@albanusburr4041
4 жыл бұрын
@@empress9554 No, left 🤣
@MrAkira-sw8hi
6 жыл бұрын
it is quite interesting to realize that samurai appear in almost all types of armor, metatron you could make a video about the variations of armor used in ancient japan 😉
@SilverforceX
6 жыл бұрын
They use anything they could get that was better than previous, flexible. Like when guns arrived, they instantly ditched bows and switched to guns.
@tylermech66
5 жыл бұрын
@@SilverforceX rich samurai, at least early on. guns were a bit rare for much of the samurai's history, and even towards the end of their era where guns were widely available some still used the bow because of tradition and the relative ease of reloading, especially on horseback.
@dimman77
5 жыл бұрын
@@tylermech66 Nobunaga won all his victories by using footsoldiers with guns. Fun fact is that the gun was the battlefield weapon of choice a generation before the Sword Saint (Musashi) was even born. He was born several years after Nobunaga died.
@tylermech66
5 жыл бұрын
@@dimman77i'm not talking about nobunaga, i'm talking about when guns were introduced to japan. it wasn't at all an instant transition.
@dimman77
5 жыл бұрын
@@tylermech66 My point is that most of the katana myths are post-Musashi, and at that time it was an obsolete war-fighting tool. It's social and combat role should be closer to that of a rapier. Sidearm and status symbol for nobles. The samurai's weapon choice of war since before the Sword Saint even existed was the gun. In Nagoya castle there are lots of screens printed with scenes of mass firearm battles (because of Nobunaga) as well as many guns on display.
@Autechltd
4 жыл бұрын
One interesting an beautiful variation of scale armor was the Chinese 'mountain' scale armor that is a lot like a cross between the brigand armor and chainmail in the way it interlocks with one another.
@Yora21
6 жыл бұрын
I was in Greece last year and did an unplanned quick visit in a small local museum before moving on to Athens and was completely surprised to see the Dendra armor on display there. I really had assumed that they would keep such an important find in the national museum. Keeping it close to where it was found is actually pretty cool.
@ShagadelicBY
6 жыл бұрын
Now we wait for TopTenz to debunk this video with alt. facts as retaliation.
@yaldabaoth2
6 жыл бұрын
Clearly, Bikini Armor was OP for viking amazons from Atlantis.
@ShagadelicBY
6 жыл бұрын
Say what you will about it but it really lets your ass breathe
@RyuFireheart
6 жыл бұрын
Bikini armor is super effective against most male opponents. Just make and entire army of women in bikini armors and you will seduce all your enemies to join your side.
@gronkiusmaximus
6 жыл бұрын
But then they can counter with homosexuals or bisexuals as soldiers O_O >Oh wait most of them don't become soldiers and even if so the huge overwhelming amount of soldiers succumbing to and joining the ranks of the Bikini Armor army would be too much xD
@ulrichkalber9039
6 жыл бұрын
it is a prejudice H. and B. are generally less male. There is a majority among them that is absolutely normal exept for sexual orientation. You would find a lot of homosexuals that would be able to fight in your antiamazon army. Also your logic is flawed: Bisexuals would react to attractive women.
@Subutai_Khan
6 жыл бұрын
Why didn't they make pommel proof armor? #Ignorancemakesmeangry
@InquisitorThomas
6 жыл бұрын
Bismarck because Pommels are simply too powerful, I’ve seen Pommels cut through Tanks like butter.
@andrewplck
6 жыл бұрын
The big bang was two pommels colliding. There is no armor against that.
@cheektarobreejo5156
6 жыл бұрын
You know Goliath? The massive, cruel, nigh unkillable Warrior from the Bible? Well David didn’t sling a rock at him, he used a pommel.
@ksubota
6 жыл бұрын
it`s impossible
@ulrichkalber9039
6 жыл бұрын
impommelssible
@mumblerogre2455
5 жыл бұрын
If you drop a heavy rock from high enough, no armor is that effective
@ismailadyaman5168
4 жыл бұрын
a helmet that allows you to see and hear well would suffice most of the times I suppose
@benjaminthibieroz4155
6 жыл бұрын
You know, I tend to dislike and mistrust all kind of "top ten", "top 25" videos. You are an exception :) Thank you very much. Very instructive as always. QUESTION: how well does an armour protect from unarmed damage? Can a really powerful kick or a strike reinforced with metal cause injury, trauma or disorientation? That's for a fight scene i wrote. Thanks.
@ericsteenbergen9470
6 жыл бұрын
Well, disorientation of course. Look up poleaxe fighting, or battle of the nations, that sort of thing. Bapping a guy on the helmet to throw him off his game, or just straight up trying to knock him over is all very important. Rarely ever hurts anybody at all, though. Unarmed... Well, it would be remarkably less effective than with a weapon. And if you just straight up tried to sock a knight all you would probably end up with is a broken hand and a remarkably angry opponent. Same goes for any metal plate (go punch a car to test this). Hitting a guy in mail or segmented armor probably wouldn't do you serious harm, but probably not a whole lot to them either.
@jotabeas22
6 жыл бұрын
I have never been in that situation but I have been kicked in the shins with a steel-toed boot while wearing polymer shinguards. Barely felt a thing after a couple of seconds, plus the adrenaline of the fight helps put it away. Unarmed combat, no matter how strong the kick/punch, delivers a relatively limited force, so there is no point unless kicking someone in the head very hard so that both the noise and the impact (if wearing a helmet, considering your question) can disorient or cause a small traumatism. Consider something else - it is true that grappling and unarmed combat were taught since the very early dawn of warfare, even with steel plate armor being common in the XVI century - but as an addition to safeguard the use of weapons. Finally, I recommend you make some small scale test to see it yourself, that generally helps. But I'd say that, yeah, best case scenario, you kick someone in the head while they are on the ground and they'll get disoriented for a few seconds.
@michaeltierney6649
6 жыл бұрын
Clearly the best thing to put in your fight scene is to have one of them screw off the pommel and end his opponent rightly.
@roguegen5536
6 жыл бұрын
Depending on the type of helmet a kick to the head could still hyperextend the neck if the helmet doesn't attach to the shoulders. Likewise if there is any significant opening on the helm a steel toed boot would be very painful on an open face helm. And in a sudden street brawl it might not be uncommon for the fighters to have left their face guards open in a "you insulted my mother" situation. A kick to a plated gut probably wouldn't do anything except stub your toe on a bad kick. That's the thickest part of most armors.
@mondaysinsanity8193
6 жыл бұрын
Wait he said reinforced with metal....do you mean like plate armor knights brawling hand to hand? Because if so i imagine that might work if theyre particularly strong but only joint and head strikes would really do anything, though grappling was common with knights
@woodwire7150
6 жыл бұрын
Like the M&B pictures
@jojobloodraven
6 жыл бұрын
alexander wachtel did you just say bannerlord when?
@hrcn7593
6 жыл бұрын
@@jojobloodraven 2019 i hope
@Overdrive-19
6 жыл бұрын
that MB picture at 1:09 seems to be used everywhere when vikings are mentioned ^^
@n.d.1846
6 жыл бұрын
THAT'S A NICE HEAD YOU HAVE ON YOUR SHOULDERS!
@shun2240
6 жыл бұрын
bannerlord when?
@SmigGames
6 жыл бұрын
I see Mount & Blade and Battle Brothers in the background images ;)
@rafalirwan9026
5 жыл бұрын
Yeah mount and blade is sadly dead not a lot of online ganes now i just play the career that you make
@SmigGames
5 жыл бұрын
Yeah, it's pretty old at this point. I still go back to it every so often for a single player campaign with some new mod I haven't tried yet. There are great mods out there that completely change the game.
@SmigGames
5 жыл бұрын
@Orgeneral Başkomutan Filozof Üstad Dr HCO cc What source are you basing that on? There's been no official announcement since the 2016 fiasco.
@SmigGames
5 жыл бұрын
@Orgeneral Başkomutan Filozof Üstad Dr HCO cc 1 - It was an absolute fiasco, not in the decision to delay it but in the decision to announce it. It was a either a failure in design or in the execution of the project, but a failure nonetheless. As for the delay, I agree, persisting the the mistake would be way worse, and I'm more patient that most fans. 2- Cool, I'll check that out.
@dreadsta001
3 жыл бұрын
2020 Welcome to Bannerlord
@NH-xg1cp
6 жыл бұрын
Obviously, full plate is n. 1, because it has glancing surfaces against pommels.
@DzinkyDzink
5 жыл бұрын
Heretic, the pommel to the head would still incapacitate you for a split second required to deliver the decisive blow!
@NoobNoob-ss5hs
5 жыл бұрын
Who said the pommel's capability is restricted to direct kinetic impact? ( ͡º ͜ʖ ͡º)
@GaladorLP
4 жыл бұрын
The peasant meatshield protects you even better if its big enough
@xwinter9374
5 жыл бұрын
How about Dragonscale Armor?
@rockstar450
3 жыл бұрын
Steel kills dragons therefore full plate is better :)
@dreadsta001
3 жыл бұрын
Nah thats too much Skyrim :D :D :D
@dreadsta001
3 жыл бұрын
Dovakhin armor
@The1Floyd
6 жыл бұрын
The amount of misconceptions about Knights and their plate armour is staggering. Thank you for rightly putting it to the top of the list. It must have been such a formidable sight seeing Knights fully kitted out. If I was a squire at the time, I would probably jizz at the sight of these guys trotting past. They were literally like the SAS of their day. The ultimate badasses of the age.
@alikuzyaka2152
5 жыл бұрын
Not SAS but rather more of a Heavy Armored Breakthrough units of 20-21 century. Turkish akinji's and deli's and ukrainian cossacks would fit the description light raider cavalry
@mikedittsche
5 жыл бұрын
Henry comes to visit us! God be praised!
@flipflierefluiter5665
5 жыл бұрын
More like actual tanks
@kubisto7386
5 жыл бұрын
1 - Diamond Set
@luvee659
5 жыл бұрын
Lol I have a mod to make bedrock armour suck it
@illoney5663
6 жыл бұрын
Something else that I personally really appreciate of late 15th/early 16th century European plate armour, specifically gothic plate, is the "wings" sometimes seen on the pauldrons which would allow extraordinary mobility in the shoulder. Either way, excellent video with some really nice pictures, one can never see that suit of gothic plate armour from the Wallace collection too many times.
@popcat2875
4 жыл бұрын
All these armor gangsta til the wearer needs to use the bathroom
@xplosivesmoke490
4 жыл бұрын
They shit and piss their pants. That's the definition of gangster.
Tony Yeah. But I mean the full armor is like a Lorica segmentata covering all the body...the Romans could have done it easily but the interesting thing with Lorica segments is that a warrior can run across the battle field and change formation quickly. That’s something that can’t be done with full plate armor.
@tylermech66
5 жыл бұрын
@@g.l207 uh, yes they can? the reason the romans never made full plate armor wasn't that their metallurgical skills weren't up to snuff, they had great metal, it was that their armor technology that wasn't as developed as late medieval Europe. Also, to the romans infantry was king, and the idea of making full plate for literal legions of troops is inconceivable to any empire. their cavalry tended towards light cavalry and typically weren't romans themselves anyway, they mostly wore mail, scale, or foreign armors. Basically, did you even listen when he stated in the part about plate how you actually CAN run across a battlefield and be very mobile because it's weight is distributed evenly? Hell,. the lorica segmentata was hell on the shoulders. while the romans did have a small amount of the weight on the hips, the main weight of it rested on the shoulders, making it seem heavier than it needed to be.
@Thesinistereyes1
5 жыл бұрын
Tank > Any armor
@tylermech66
5 жыл бұрын
@@Thesinistereyes1tank is not infantry
@itsMe_TheHerpes
5 жыл бұрын
@@tylermech66 yes it is. it's called motorized infantry.
@malahamavet
6 жыл бұрын
I love the videos in which we see different kinds of armour weapons or anything. Because I discover inspiring things from our world that I didn't know and their explanations make me understand how it works so I can imagine a fantasy setting with realistic features
@nancyvolker3342
6 жыл бұрын
well executed and informative...love your work
@jonathancummings6400
3 жыл бұрын
I agree with the #1 choice. Only firearms and Warhammer could regularly defeat it.
@adam346
5 жыл бұрын
Brigandine is my personal favorite... it can be beautiful, very light, far less expensive than steel plate and was meant for the every man. Late mideval plate armor will always be the best but your average soldier could rely on a Brigandine in most situations.
@nathanc939
6 жыл бұрын
Late rus scale armor is the best scale armor for sure, it deserve a separate mention.
@i1bike
5 жыл бұрын
Armors are for fashion, all that you need is proper +10 weapon.
@steampunkastronaut7081
4 жыл бұрын
And use lightning to take advantage of their fancy selections.
@Unknown_Meliodas
4 жыл бұрын
I just can’t believe that scale armor isn’t made from dragon scales
@TacticalBurger0
5 жыл бұрын
Talks about scale armor.....Doesn't mention it's use between the slavic tribes.... Goes and Cries in corner as mad world is playing
@sirsteam181
4 жыл бұрын
Scale Armor is the worlds step child whilst Mail is their favorite child
@razr-x9666
4 жыл бұрын
Sir Steam LAMELLAR
@markbyrd7710
6 жыл бұрын
Sweet. I think that 12th century European armor is the most aesthetically pleasing to me. I like the look with the surcoats over the armor.
@shaymcleod5735
5 жыл бұрын
Maybe you can do Top 10 worst designed swords are armour
@VRichardsn
4 жыл бұрын
1:12 this image is quite nice.
@iterenzi
6 жыл бұрын
Hey Raf! Man I really like your channel, hope you don't mind some harsher feedback. Man, your video and audio quality could improve a lot still. I don't think its an issue of equipment, I believe it might be just a matter of some adjustments and some tricks. I'll give some suggestions, maybe consider try some of them out. First, the audio could use some work. There are filters that you can use to lower the ambient sound. Audacity is a good software for that. Concerning video, your camera usually looks just slightly out of focus maybe try to give that a look. Also, backgrounds are really important. Maybe use a green screen, or make a nicely decorated set. Hope you take this the right way, I just think your channel (and you) deserve all the quality it can get. Cheers!
@lefevrecorinne7608
4 жыл бұрын
Virgin manga oversised armor vs chad real life armor
@littlst
5 жыл бұрын
Every TV viewer knows that armour is completely useless and that a soldier in his skimpy underwear can defeat 20 fully armoured knights.
@cocolahoff4292
5 жыл бұрын
Steven Littlechild you mean He-Man?
@gur262
4 жыл бұрын
I mean yes. Even I could do that, as long as I got a pistol and enough magazines
@ioanesarishvili1701
4 жыл бұрын
1:33 for honor minion
@buzzzer123
6 жыл бұрын
#1 Should’ve been plot armor
@lithostheory
4 жыл бұрын
George RR Martin disagrees...
@Robin-lm8ce
3 жыл бұрын
This videos going to be helpful in the apocalypse
@bradmakesgains8779
6 жыл бұрын
Native American armor: witchcraft
@tylermech66
5 жыл бұрын
the Aztecs had a variation of cloth armor, shields, and some leather armors. It's kind of funny actually, look at a picture of their jaguar warriors, they look like they're wearing pajamas :D some of the more northern peoples also had the rare bone armors, kind of like lamellar but admittedly more primitive.
@jeffersonian000
5 жыл бұрын
Native Americans in North America had shields, thick hide shirts, woven cloth armor, and bone armor. They didn’t normally practice combat with the intent kill their opponent, but show that they could. When a came to all our warfare, they were just as efficient at it as everyone else in history, just with a slightly set of tools. Natives to South America had full suits of cloth armor intended to defeat their glass edged swords and glass tipped spears. Humans are great at killing each other, and quite ingenious at figuring ways to escalate an arms race.
@jeffersonian000
5 жыл бұрын
Interestingly, Elk hide will stop a .50 cal musket round outside of 30 yards. It’ll hurt, but it won’t penetrate.
@rodrigofloyd890
5 жыл бұрын
well, the wars in the ancient american continent were totally different than those in the rest of the world. Some fo the Native American nations did not fight to kill but just to harm or stun. Not the case with the aztecs (aka mexicas) who had powerful but primitive weapons, it is a fact that arrows and obsidian clubs were far more effective for the aztecs than the spanish arquebuse
@jonajo9757
3 жыл бұрын
@@tylermech66 There's other forms of armors that involve the use of wooden slats and probably wolven plant fibers? I don't remember much.
@jhonacosta5905
5 жыл бұрын
Excellent work, congratulations From Bogota Colombia !!!
@marianmalczewski4012
5 жыл бұрын
Also Winged Hussars' ones were really specialized to fight in theses times,they were that hard,that a bullet from musket couldn't penetrate that.
@eyeninja3398
6 жыл бұрын
plot armor is still the best
@DernerAssaur
6 жыл бұрын
Finally, a good ol' Metatron-style vid!
@christinacasey7231
4 жыл бұрын
I have a final in 4 hours why am i watching this
@TaterChip91
Жыл бұрын
It'd be cool to see someone actually wearing the armor and show just how much range of motion they had
@Samurai-ub6ew
6 жыл бұрын
Tosei gusoku is my favorite
@lesliesylvan
6 жыл бұрын
Great photos, etc. I paused on many for full appreciation. Always great work. Thank you.
@Luccimatic
Жыл бұрын
Im lucky to have a museum nearby that has a pretty nice collection of 15th and 16th century plate armor.
@jesperohlrich7090
6 жыл бұрын
Interesting top 10, but I’m a bit surprised that Greek Linothorax isn’t on the list.
@miguelrangel-vj4pf
6 жыл бұрын
This is the video we needed metatron
@Z7Sakari
3 жыл бұрын
Excellent content and brilliantly educational. I also really dig your accent and pronunciation.
@FirstCitizenXIV
5 жыл бұрын
No mention of Greek/Hellenic musculata bronze plate?
@landergeens6069
6 жыл бұрын
You forgot a silken cape.. Enough to catch all arrows on the back, costing almost 0 and weight almost 0...
@ninjahombrepalito1721
6 жыл бұрын
I hadn't seen your videos in a while (for reasons). Your hair is even shorter.
@metatronyt
6 жыл бұрын
Yes :3
@HappyBeezerStudios
6 жыл бұрын
Looks like a roman now. Is there something coming up that requires short hair, or is it just the hot italian summer?
@shinkiro403
6 жыл бұрын
@@HappyBeezerStudios it really has been until a couple of days ago, at least in Northen Italy. Not so sure though (quite the opposite) about Sicily, the only way you could see snow there is during a fallout so yes, usually pretty hot there
@HappyBeezerStudios
6 жыл бұрын
@@shinkiro403 our summer up further north is over for about a week. Bus I expect further south a bit more sun for longer.
@ScarletFang423
10 ай бұрын
5 years too late... but i appreciate this video! I am a writer who is working on a fantasy project and this video was insightful.
@jfobel2204
3 жыл бұрын
Lets not forget that plating was so revolutionary to Europe at the time it began spreading rumors of how their swords, axes, and countless other sharp weapons were essentially dull, and blunt metal clubs. When in all actuality the plate was just that invulnerable to them.
@francescocantoni5665
6 жыл бұрын
PFFF NUMBER ONE CAN BE EASILY CUTTED IN TWO PIECES LIKE AN ICE CUBE BY A POWERFUL KATANA!1!1!1!;)Great video as usual, I'm also pleased to know more on "Dendra armour".
@sixtyninemangler
6 жыл бұрын
Katana is worthless against plate
@majesticgothitelle1802
6 жыл бұрын
But the forces of Pommel can is so powerful that it was that created the Big Bang and wiped out the dinosaurs.
@sixtyninemangler
6 жыл бұрын
@Michael Smith Negative, bladed weapons don't work against plate armour. That Katana would break.
@cobraglatiator
6 жыл бұрын
sixty: r/woosh...
@sixtyninemangler
6 жыл бұрын
@@cobraglatiator whut
@koshiinahole1003
3 жыл бұрын
I reinstalled mount and blade vikings conquest because of ur vids kinda inspiring
@josephchristopherdavissr.6804
6 жыл бұрын
I'm surprised brigandine armour is not widely known. Thank you and keep spreading your wings.
@Antihumanistas
6 жыл бұрын
this list is the wrong way round - everyone who watches this chanel knows which armor will be the no 1, what was most interesting to me was the bronze armor as hadnt seen it before. This list is better seen in ascending order from #1 to #10
@juandavidrestrepoduran6007
6 жыл бұрын
Not many people actually. Because it's fucking ancient. Like, if a hoplite from the wars against the persians, or a macedonian cavalry or a legionaire started to do campsite tasks and started to dig and suddenly found that, it would already be fucking old. For example, the wars against the persians (particularly the ones you think when seeing 300) are located in a period (archaic) that was between 800-480 bc and this armor is from the mycenean period which was between 1600-1100 bc, the example in question is from like 15 century bc, meaning that it was like 1000 years old to them (first war 492 bc, second one in 480). The classical period that followed, lasted like 200 years and ended when Alexander the Great died (323 bc), then to the macedonian cavalryman that's around 1200 years old, if we put this roman soldier to end the subsecuent Hellenistic period he would be arround 146 bc, so like 1400 years old, or if we think of him as the classical legionaire using lorica segmentata, then it could be 1450-1750 years old. Now, Knight Errant has a video called "Putting the middle ages in perspective" because we tend to mix everything medieval, and he shows excelently that the norman knight at Hastings is exactly as far from the reinassance full-plated shining armor knight as that one is from us (roughly 500 years), i mention it because we tend to do the same, we tend to think soldiers of the roman fall all used lorica segmentata and so did the first roman warriors when in reality the first ones looked very similar to the neighbouring Gallic/Gaelic (celtic) peoples, and the last ones looked a lot like the germanic migration/vendel warriors (which borrowed helmet construction, mail and even sword styles), continuing with that, we also imagine the macedonian greek army that conquered asia using corinthian helmets and the greek warriors in the Illyiad too, when it was too old at Alexander's time and too far away when the facts of the age created what we later called the troyan war. It is the armor from this period what we can think Achilles weared when we talk about Troy, Mycenean warriors, not Hoplites. I've made numbers and great-grandpa started to be arround like 100 years ago, taking that, then we have 2000 years+ 1500 from the date this armor possibly relates to, so there's like 140 generations between the Mycenean warrior who weared that and us. It's like seeing great grandpa's 138-139 times-removed armor's in a museum.
@MrSpartanspud
5 жыл бұрын
Yeah you completely misunderstood his point it seems. He was saying that plate Armour being the final point (number one) on the list is pointless because anyone with a brain knows that but nobody really knows about the first point (number 10). So the list should have been inverted in his opinion because less people would know about the bronze armour tham the plate.
@Antihumanistas
5 жыл бұрын
@@MrSpartanspud I dont think juan david restrepo duran was refuting me but just adding info.
@ERROR-uk9uc
6 ай бұрын
Warning! Jump scare of cursed short haired metatron! You have been warned
@Rook.Kaiser
3 жыл бұрын
just when i was about to go to sleep at3.30 am here in Malaysia, youtube has done it again.
@azvazch
Жыл бұрын
Dendra dude lookin straight out the ward.
@vast634
3 жыл бұрын
Now we have superseded all of this with the safety t-shirt.
@gene51231356
6 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the video. I have two questions: 1. While full plate was mobile enough for fighting, was it mobile enough for strategic marching on foot? If the ancient Romans had access to medieval plate armor technology and resources, would they still choose to equip their legionnaires with it (especially post-Marius, without supply trains) ? It's one thing to use an armor for several hours during a battle, and another to march 30-40km a day wearing a full plate suit. 2. Why were Roman style shields (and formations which relied on them) abandoned in medeival warfare? I understand they are not very effective against some types of cavalry or other mobile warfare, but in battles like those of the 100-year war, where French knights marched upon English longbowmen, why did they not use large shields (especially since they could now make them out of iron or steel, not just wood) to protect against bows? I'd imagine a large front-facing shield is much more effective against arrows coming from a known direction with a long warning period, compared to body armor which is thinner, and of more use in melee where the timing and direction of attacks can be much more unpredictable.
@metatronyt
6 жыл бұрын
The Romans had the tech to make full body armour as we see in gladiator combat, but they still didn't. If they had access to full plate Late Medieval armour they would equip the equites with it, not the legionaries. Large shields weren't completely abandoned, they changed. If you look at Kite shields you'll see that.
@gene51231356
6 жыл бұрын
Fair enough. What about Roman-style formations? Wouldn't a Testudo formation be effective at storming a defensive position manned by longbowmen? What kind of infantry tactics were used in late medeival warfare? Because stereotypically, when I hear of the medieval era, I imagine orderly and well-trained knights fighting in well-polished formations and styles such as charge cavalry, but as soon as we get to infantry combat (which most combatants still were), it's a mass of poorly trained, poorly armed peasants (with some mediocre men-at-arms thrown in), usually only equipped with a helmet and soft armor, fighting in chaotic, unorganized combat, and little more formation than a "human wave". And knights, when forced to dismount (such as during several key 100 year war battles), were not benefitting from their mounted combat training, and without training in infantry formations, fared little better as a group, even despite their individually superior training as warriors. Is this is a fair representation, especially by late medieval warfare, or was infantry combat more structured and disciplined than this stereotype?
@Belial1125
6 жыл бұрын
That style of combat was a mainstay all the way up into the age of guns, despite Hollywood depictions. They just usually werent as well trained and disciplined. Soldiers got expensive so wide use of levies tended to take prevelence, but even still they used shields even large ones and often combat would turn into two walls slaming up against eachother. Bur wventually pile formations took over as calvary became big and giant walls of spears would slam into eachother, though medieval and dark ages was kind of shenanigans with nobility pretty mutch amuseing themselve buy fighting wars like you play video games, so knights became a centralized part of armies.
@mondaysinsanity8193
6 жыл бұрын
Gene i would like too say the norse were well known for using roman style tactics in open battle even their equipment was quite similar in practice their strategy was celtic but their tactics were mostly Romanesque its kinda cool
@SuperFunkmachine
6 жыл бұрын
1. you ride about in full plate, you don't walk your rich enough to afford multiple horses. If you walking then it the weight that's the problem, haveing bits of armour on your legs tires you out. Carrying it is a little better but the weight is still there for you to carry. While it takes time to don a suit of full plate, it's minutes. 2. when your dressed head to toe in steel a shield is bad trade off, you can't use a two hand weapon.
@rodom303
6 жыл бұрын
Your haircut is oddly arousing....
@bradenross4182
6 жыл бұрын
_yeet_
@SaintJames14
6 жыл бұрын
Are you a girl?
@rodom303
6 жыл бұрын
Robert Crawford nope
@SaintJames14
6 жыл бұрын
@@rodom303 hmm, I find this unsettling. Carry on.
@mrsillywalk
6 жыл бұрын
That`s nice for you!
@chrisadams1814
6 жыл бұрын
for some reason when with the music and how you talked about the full plate armor at the end i got super hyped
@metatronyt
6 жыл бұрын
Good to hear!
@Neon-Lines
2 жыл бұрын
full plate armour, I knew it
@rupestreviajante6664
5 жыл бұрын
one thing i don't see often discussed in these videos is the vision on the helmet. Although i have no doubt the European full plate armor offers most protection and mobility, those helmets seemed to leave the knight almost blind
@dumusstarbeiten5063
5 жыл бұрын
believe me, it isnt't that bad. the point you focus most really counts.
@Strop2198
6 жыл бұрын
Riguardo al sesto classificato, quando cercai una traduzione in italiano di "gambason" trovai "faretto d'arme", conosci un termine più corretto?
@kerbangofiji5646
5 жыл бұрын
intendi "farsetto"?
@rameyzamora1018
6 жыл бұрын
I am so sad. This is all about war and killing. But thank you, Raf, for the info. Lets respect the horses that were extremely vulnerable and gave up their lives in the millions to human warfare.
@blastulae
6 жыл бұрын
Maybe a little more about fabric armors would be in order, such as Aztec quilted armor and Greek linothorax. Basic Aztec armor was quilted cotton of two to three thicknesses. The cotton was soaked in salt brine then hung out to dry. The salt crystallized in the material, which gave it the ability to resist obsidian blades and spears. Nobles might add another layer, in a tunic. Cortez' men found that they didn't need hot, heavy steel armor against Mexican weapons, but that the quilted armor served well enough.
@snowcoalRC
5 жыл бұрын
#1: Full diamond gear with Protection IV, Unbreaking III, and Mending on every piece. NOTHING is stronger than that shit.
@ismailadyaman5168
4 жыл бұрын
Well, I have bad news. it's 1.16 now
@snowcoalRC
4 жыл бұрын
İsmail Adıyaman tbf 1 year ago netherite wasnt announced and since im not a time traveler I had no idea that diamond would get overtaken.
@ismailadyaman5168
4 жыл бұрын
@@snowcoalRC I know I know :D sorry no offense intended
@MRKapcer13
6 жыл бұрын
I don't think that you should try to quantify something like this, and in general I have to disagree with a lot of this video. If we're discussing body armour, then the "Pre-Modern" suffix is unnecessary, because no modern body armour compares in its relative effectiveness to 16th and even 17th century plate armours when compared to what they had to face. More or less as you say that scale armour was replaced by more modern types of armours you show a picture of what appears to be Polish 17th century scale armour (some people would probably call it Hussar's armour, though I'd be reluctant because I don't know whose armour it really was.) Scale armour really came back into fashion around 16th and 17th centuries due to its perceived callback to the Roman era and the pseudo-classical look. To my understanding we don't really have evidence of padded armour worn under mail at all before 13th century. It's extremely likely that this was done, and I think most historians agree that it's very likely, but there isn't any solid evidence to support that. There's also an argument to be made for the effectiveness of standalone gambeson being greater than that of a thinner gambeson and a mail hauberk. Remember you can make cloth VERY thick, and it's possible that the resulting armour suffices in most circumstances. I don't think putting "full plate armour" is particularly fair to be honest. Firstly, most plate armours used components that have their own entry on the list. Mail, gambesons and coats of plate could be all worn as part of the complete package. You're also discussing "Late Medieval" full plate armour whilst showing images of mostly 16th century armours (from the Wallace Collection from what I can see). I would agree that at that point plate armour was more or less as good as armour could be in terms of protection. However, the Late Medieval period is roughly mid-14th to end of 15th centuries, so in terms of protection you place late 14th century harness on the same level as the Avant armour, despite there being at least 50 years between the two and their protection capabilities being vastly different.
@clothar23
6 жыл бұрын
I disagree with your assessment that modern day body armour doesn't face the same kinda of threats pre modern. Or that it isn't effective. My plate carrier saved my ass more than once during my time in Afghanistan, six separate times in fact, and none of those rounds penetrated. Body armour will always be effective in stopping certain threats, and it will always have it's weak points. Even plate harness could be bypassed, plenty of Knights died at the hands of illiterate farm boys after all.
@lillyanneserrelio2187
6 жыл бұрын
@ MRKapcer- then make your own video and educate us the right way. So sick of you and the other 99% of the comments here on everything from his haircut to "should have made plot armor #1" remarks. This guy spent a lot of time and effort trying to educate us on the various armors used thru out history in an engaging way (a top 10 countdown) and while we can spend all day arguing about the order of the armor or which armors should or shouldn't be on the list, the point is he took HIS TIME to help educate us. More comments thanking him and less trolling, please. Please.
@MRKapcer13
6 жыл бұрын
So if you disagree with something you should thank someone anyway for the effort that they put into it alone? "Oh hey see, I really don't like what Stalin did when starving Ukraine, but to be honest he put so much effort into it I can't be mad at the guy." I made it clear that quantifying effectiveness of armour is a useless endeavour in my opinion, and measuring the effectiveness of an item of armour is impossible. I made my case as to why that is. If you disagree, feel free to, but don't give me this "you're ungrateful for his teaching :(" bullshit. If you enjoy this content that's fine. In my view it's devoid of any intellectual value unless it can be quantified, but if you feel like you're getting something out of it, all the power to you. Realise, however, that even if you enjoy content, someone else might have criticisms of it, and that's fine. I agree though. Plot armour and haircut remarks are stupid. But hey, so is blindly sucking the author off for creating content.
@sylvanstrength7520
6 жыл бұрын
It's good to be able to watch your videos again, my friend :)
@RyuFireheart
6 жыл бұрын
No chinese armor? I think some may fit in this list too. Nice video anyway
@metatronyt
6 жыл бұрын
Lamellar was used in China pal ;)
@elizabethjarrett8914
6 жыл бұрын
@@metatronyt I know l was just acting like a idiot for a min being smart all the time is taxing lol.
@elizabethjarrett8914
6 жыл бұрын
@@metatronyt Being smart all the time tends to make a lot of people feel incompetent and so I try to act more basic intelligence as not to cause my friends and family to feel less intelligent. Humans are very emotional species. one word can crush anyone its why I try to be nice to everyone but not a Pushover.
@clothar23
6 жыл бұрын
They also had their own version of plate harness though and considering you covered the Japanese equivalent to plate harness it seems a bit odd leaving the Chinese out. Considering they were a massive military power for most of the time period covered here. Far larger than the Japanese ever were and I'd argue greater than the Romans since China was still an Imperial power in the 20th century.
@elizabethjarrett8914
6 жыл бұрын
@@clothar23 Romans were stronger armour Crushed many peoples The Chinese vs a Roman force Chinese might win but high losses over half of their force. So in a way they still lose Cause half of their force gone leaves up for more Romans to come and crush the battered and tattered and ragged force of China which would be at half strength and weak and tired.
@garybryant7274
6 жыл бұрын
In the SCA, the standard idea was that if you wore full plate armor you should be able to play baseball in it, if it was properly made and fit you well.
@rahulshubh8103
2 жыл бұрын
Beautiful armors
@jai-kk5uu
6 жыл бұрын
Finally a video with results
@TrollDragomir
6 жыл бұрын
A little pet peeve - the mail was used less and less in 16th and 17th Century in the west. In eastern Europe it was used basically up to 18th Century, while in parts of Asia even up to 20th Century.
@mrtrollnator123
Жыл бұрын
Although full plate is the most effective, my favorite is the segmentata - just look at it! Looks so badass and, when paired with scuta, can protect you from pretty much any projectile
@matthewkuchinski1769
6 жыл бұрын
Awesome job on a top ten video! It is amazing that the brigandine armor was worn by some of the conquistadores when they fought in the New World, as it was cheaper than the plate armor prevalent at the time.
@JohnJohnningJohnson
4 жыл бұрын
Nobody: ...... Metatron: **VIBRANCE**
@Kkey884
6 жыл бұрын
Okay, this is once again an amazing video from you, armor senpai Metatron. And number ten! I hadn’t even heard of that kind of armor before! Will you go to the dark ages, Middle Ages, and renaissance? China? Japan? This is great stuff!
@suhaelraghunath4841
6 жыл бұрын
Love your channel one of the few worth while youtubers out there
@wric01
5 жыл бұрын
Besides a lord or king most have no access to full plate armor unless they have their own blacksmith. Thus 10 vs 10 full plate armor only exist in small scale village fights of a hundred to a thousand at most. While in asia battles are in the 10k to 100k.
@TheGreatMoonFrog
3 жыл бұрын
It's funny how plate armor makers realized that angled surfaces were better at deflecting blows and projectiles but early tank designers seemingly had to relearn this knowledge all over again.
@jhay3966
6 жыл бұрын
from using rocks, to nukes; we are so focused in warfare that we forget art, order, etc. Also i thaught Brigandine was read as Brigandayn and not brigandin.
@xxlCortez
5 жыл бұрын
I'd argue that mail is an effective armor, it's just a piece of paper.
@wookie-zh7go
4 жыл бұрын
When you've been up all night an at 8am click on top ten armours, instead of going to bed... Why!!!!
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