@clousems said in #14:
> Well, I'm not sure. I was going for a plate of a throated hooking shield duel from Hans Talhoffer's Fechtbuch, but I gave my copy of that away and was unable to find anything from it with a 5 second google search. Thus, I just used the first imgur result that popped up. "Close enough", says I.
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> FWIW, it does look fairly authentic to me. They really did use shields like that in German trials-by-combat.
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> EDIT: Can you believe that chicks don't immediately fall in love with me when I tell them stuff like this?
ROFL.
Well if you lived back in those days and wore the armour you probably would have an admirer or two.
Going by my ancestry I would have been one of the peasants though , so no armor for me 8( .