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What nation do these guys represent? I don't recognize the shield.
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I quite like how the coat of arms changes... it's like a depiction of the same family over the years.
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It's as if between the last two stages there'd been a paradigm shift :3
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There was. By 1610 firearms had been invented, and most European powers were scrambling to adopt them in some form. Gone were the days of the fully clad knight, and in their place you saw soldiers in lighter but better built armor that covered the vital organs and head while giving them more flexibility.
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Awesome! It's nice to see centuries worth of armored soldiers lined up for comparison.
What's the red thing the 1330 knight is wearing on his torso? Is that just cloth or is that actually armor? It looks more like the latter to me, resembling brigandine the most, but I'm not 100% sure.
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You are correct, that is a brigandine.
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Thia is one of the best images I have ever seen. Thanks man
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This is very informative. I hadn't realized that full plate armour had come so late, relatively speaking. Thank you for creating this.
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More like a DEvolution at the end.
It's so sad that there is no today's equivalent to the old full body Plate Armour in terms of being combat-worthy...
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As soon as guns appeared...armour just went out the window
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In fact, plate armor was made to be bulletproof. And then the pikes came, and it began being "Pike magnet".
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and it was also in part due to economics. good armor let alone a set that could stop a matchlock bullet was incredibly expensive. only the top brass could afford a bulletproof cuirass and still be able to afford everything else
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I really love this post you did on the evolution of Knightly armour.
Actually, I need to thank you for this sheet since it was one of the results I found on google when I was searching for a chart of different armors for each century when I was developing one of my characters a while back. I also wanted to to give you credit for the inspiration by this for one of my posts.
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I was thinking the 1250 knight would have a larger shield if anything, to stop clubs and sling stones.Β Because chainmail doesn't really protect against impacts.Β He might also have looked fatter if he had a thick gambeson underneath.
According to wiki the kite shield was 'completely phased out by 1300' due to the fact that leg armor got good enough.Β My guess is that throughout 13th century, there would have been pavisses and such, leading to a reduction in the popularity of kite shields (the main consumer being troop formations).Β Any particularly brazen knights fighting out in the open probably still used them until that cutting off point (1300 AD).
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Cool! 
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this is such an informative and educational work of art. it would be cool to see versions for say, cavalry, archers, pikemen, and the like
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Dropping the steel helmet from the 1650s to WWI was probably not a good idea.
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Indeed! Three pointed hats, shakos and kepis offered no protectionΒ for the head; even the original pickelhaube was only made of leather.
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