Are chainmails a good investment when walking around in poor neighborhoods? What sized rings are best?
Are chainmails a good investment when walking around in poor neighborhoods? What sized rings are best?
Are chainmails a good investment when walking around in poor neighborhoods? What sized rings are best?
>cling clang cling
>bushes start to rustle
>clinging louder as you hustle
>"Ayoo steal this homies change" erupts from a bush behind you
From my research they don't make noise
plus if you wear it under your hoodie nobody would know
> From my research they don't make noise
They don't. At least, not as far as I could tell standing next to dorks in full chain mail shirts at a Ren Faire. Maybe he had something on underneath it that muffled the noise though.
a shirt?
Other than some girly pins on it, that shirt is pretty shitty shoddy looking.
Just get a stab vest if you're too poor for plates. If you're interested in being uncomfortable you can get a stab vest and wear a weight vest over it for half the cost of a decent tailored piece.
Well fitting and lightly padded, affixed chain makes almost no noise.
In every knife fight, and every victim of a knife fight, I've ever seen there have always been cuts to the arms and/or ribs. A stab vest won't stop that, and if it's a good rake with the point of the blade, it'll pierce and cut through anything short of good, thick leather. Anyone make, maintain and repair maile with simple hand tools, but leather requires specialty tools, space and expensive material. It'd be limited to winter wear, while chain is comfortable if not exposed to the sun.
I don't think it would be very useful in an urban environment, but goddamn if it isn't underutilized kino
There's a lot of stabbings which would make it useful
The tunic (if that is the right term) over long mail shirt is quite an iconic look.
It's just a cloak.
Cloaks have hoods though, correct? Whereas all the knightly orders in KoH had that Roman knock off thing like pic rel with no sleeves or hood.
To illustrate, there are people wearing cloaks, but the guy front and center has just what ammounts to a very long sleeveless shirt over his mail shirt.
it's a surcoat
What's the difference between a surcoat and a tabard?
Surcoats are thicker and usually have sleeves that can be laced on, and they cover the whole body, as well as the legs to provide cover for your maile from the sun. A tabard only goes over the torso, is usually thin and purely decorative and can be taken off with ease.
And further, what is the difference in a tunic and a surcoat? Just use case?
Tabard?
Tabard goes over top, like a poncho with out without laces
That is not a tunic, i am not sure if it has a name but ive seen it just called of side opening cloak or similar names, they were fashionable in europe since ancient times. A tunic would be shirt generally characterized for its lenght going down to knee lenght.
Not necessarily, hoods and cloaks can be made as different pieces so that you can freely choose when to use one, the other or both, in fact, in the 14th century it bacame popular in europe to use hoods as an improvised hat called of chaperone.
Also not a tabard, a tarbard is a style livery like pic related. A surcoat is usualy used to refer to another type of livery like the ones in
pic, but i think the name might apply to other later stuff or simply as a generic name. usualy sleeveless, but there are exceptions, like in spain where they had short sleeves, which bacame super popular starting at the 13th and early 14th before they started diverging into other shapes.
Of course that the moment they pull a gun you're done, but it sounds interesting
>challenge local ruffians to a knife fight
>show up in hauberk
>the local population laughs at you
>they think you're a gay
>you produce a ten foot dagger and move henceforth with the battle
>you proceed to win without a scratch
>you close the eyes of your defeated foes and leave a coin for each because you are a man of honor
>proceed home to cook a pot of groats with a side of homemade dandelion wine
Based if you ask me.
I meant ten inch but you know what 10 feet is cool as hell
>anon brings a pike to a knife fight
i get her chainmail probably made of some plastic or smth like that but it's still painful to look at cause long hair and mail is a shitty combination
Wear it openly, nigs get scared of new things