Re: Cookies and Mercs

[Eli White <eliwhite@home.com>]

Poster: Eli White <eliwhite@home.com>

>Ever actually worn a hauberk over a gambeson, and had someone strike you
>with a sharp-edged steel sword?  I haven't.  How hard did that person
>have to hit you to mortally wound you?  Perhaps he could instruct us.
[snip]
>You know, I own a hauberk and a gambeson and a steel sword.  Perhaps we
>should dress an inanimate dummy and see what damage we can do.  Maybe
>Gwen's dress form?  :)  Maybe not.

>From being on the-armoury mailing list I do know that people have done this
before.  By wrapping a leg of beef, or ribs in a gambeson and chain, and
then whacking on it with a real sword ...

Basically from what I remember, it took ALOT of force to actually break the
bone (although ribs were easier than thigh as you would imagine), but that
it didn't take 'too much' to do major damage to the meat itself ... to the
point that the testers assumed that the person underneath the stuff would
be 'uninclined to continue fighting'

Thrusting was remarkable easy, even with rivited links, as a 'decent' sword
would shear or bend the links out of shape enough to allow it to pass at
least a few inches through.

Siegfried


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