Armor and swing speed

THEBALLCRUSHA · Mar 23, 2015

Hello there I am wanting to know if having more and very heavy armour effects things like weapon swing speed and movement speed because in the expert arena I steal all the amazing looking plate armour but I cant really see much difference in movement and if it does not yet I assume it is planned to?

TwoPumpWarrior · Mar 24, 2015

I'm no expert but we have a few of those around here

Elric, an awesome local here, has spent countless hours researching and participating in combat.
Based on his feedback on this very issue, many people believe armor is much heavier than it actually was in reality. An average weight was 20 - 40 kg and most combatants would be very experienced fighting in their armor. I hope this helps a little.

THEBALLCRUSHA · Mar 24, 2015

Ah, so in reality armour isn't actually that heavy?
I actually have some experience with fire arms and know a lot about them but I know next to nothing about medieval weaponry and armour, I think im gonna look into this stuff more, I want to know more about hitting people with big metal sticks XD

TwoPumpWarrior · Mar 24, 2015

A quick google tells me that plated jousting armor in the late 15th century could be around 100 lbs or 50 kg. This armor was not designed for fighting, only jousting as there was very little range of motion. Plated armor used for combat was maybe 60 lbs or ~30 kg and that's like the heavy stuff. Really though, I'm no expert but I've taken note of Elric's posts (he's very informed and nice to talk to) and wanted to hopefully relay some of his information accurately

THEBALLCRUSHA · Mar 24, 2015

thank you

burgzaza · Mar 24, 2015

Yeah, I could not find back the video that Elric linked, with the two dudes fighting in real heavy armors , making barrel-rolls, climbing and running...
I too was kinda suprised that in fact, heavy armors don't bother too mutch people, even nowadays, so I let you imagine back in medieval days, on trained warriors

THEBALLCRUSHA · Mar 24, 2015

I think i saw the footage you were talking about, but that was a long time ago

Edit:

This one?

burgzaza · Mar 24, 2015

THEBALLCRUSHA said:
This one?

This one, same idea but more developped :

They might have ended up deaf at the end of large battles back then... the armor's sounds >'<

Pancakez54 · Mar 24, 2015

burgzaza said:
This one, same idea but more developped :

They might have ended up deaf at the end of large battles back then... the armor's sounds >'<

The bit where he's rolling around :O Damn. We need to inform Madoc of this!