Mycenean armor (their king Agamemnon led the Greek army to Troy). It is a unique find and consists of four parts: the collar, the shoulder pads, the breast-plate and an articulated section of three broad belts, for the protection of the warrior's body. It was found in a tomb at Dendra and dates from the 15th century B.C.
So people wearing armour like that invaded our land long ago...
The Tang armies crossed the Pamirs several times under Kao-Sien-Chih,
As for the Greeks, everyone knows the name Alexander. He passsed just south of our area, but back then Dardic people also lived further south than they do today, before they were decimated/driven out by the Pashtuns.
In all fairness though the Hellenistic age was a long time after the days of Mycenae, so people wearing teh Mycenean armour never passed through our region.
Post some armour from Alexander's day...
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The Rajatarangini
Chain mail is not a good armour, they are hard to make (imagine trying to connect 100000 little steel circles), they are expensive and they don't protect well. It can't stop an arrow, it has little effect against the thrust of swords and is only minutely effective against slashes.
However they are lighter than armour plates.
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God is black? Since when?
This message has been edited by COWlan on Feb 26, 2006 2:28 AM
Actually chaimail is quite a good armour, and contrary to common belief, it actually does protect against sword thrusts and arrows (broad tipped only. Armor piercing arrows even go through strong plate armors). Chainmail is really good in hot weather conditions as it doesn't heat up and lets air go through to the skin. Chainmail is also quite lightweight and much more easily repaired (A damaged plate armour has to be melted and recycled where as you can mend different parts of chainmail and make it last a lot longer).
You are right about it being hard to make though. It does take 1 armourer (working 9-5) upto 2 weeks to prepare chaimail while most plate armours can be done in one.
Indian elite soldiers also used plate armours:
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Quote:In my village we have some chainmail armor, our ancestors used to take it off the bodies of Badakhshani soldiers when they invaded.
No helemts though.
I'm actually quite surprised to hear that. I was expecting you'd start saying something like you guys have lots of ancient chainmail from the times of Ghazni or something...
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This message has been edited by Darkness1089 on Feb 26, 2006 11:13 PM
Chainmails only had protective effect against slashes, not thrusts, thrusts go right through (thrust, not a poke).
Crossbows which China invented takes down any armoured knight easily. No one used wood arrows, all armies were using metal tipped AP arrows, chainmails couldn't stop them at all.
Cuirasier (best cavalry force during the Napoleonic inflicting up to 8 to 1 casualty in most engagement)
Cuirasier Helmet
Breastplate
Sword
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The medieval european plate armour were extremely expensive, they were for knights and one suit often costs more than a mansion. Not many people could afford these armour. However Chinese cross-bows through trade entered Europe and peasants with no training what so ever on it could take down an experienced knight in a blink of an eye.
that polish armour is actually quite interesting.. from the hussar cavalry (they wore wings which i can imagine
during a cavalry charge.. would look quite cool!)
