RE: Cookies and Mercs

[Eli White <eliwhite@home.com>]

Poster: Eli White <eliwhite@home.com>

>I believe that the various armored dummies (or meats) tests are invalid.

As they very well may be ... however ...

>The "Telling Blow" concept is not about cutting through an opponents armor.
>It is about disabling an opponent.  Of course, cutting through the armor (as

none of the tests that I have read about actually tried to cut through the
armor ...

They looked at the damage done to the meat (is trauma the proper word?).
But in other words, they put the gambeson and chain over the leg of beef,
then they cut at it with a sword, then took the armor off and looked/felt
the meat ... To see what kind of damage had been done to it, how badly
beaten it was ...

>in particular head blows, a telling blow would not cut the head off but
>rather stun or concuss the opponent and end the fight.

This unfortuneatly would not be testable ... although maybe ... I guess if
you really wanted to get high tech you could make a clear plastic 'brain
case', and then put a brain inside, put a helm over it, and a video camera
underneath.  Hit the helm, then use the film to measure how 'compressed'
the brain material became against the side of the case ...

Siegfried

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