Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-17114085-20170908205632/@comment-24510587-20170920150655

(Unless you're a Soviet Russian general during Operation Barbarossa, there is no such thing as cannon fodder. Manpower is valuable and hard to regain once lost. No sane war leader employs professional armies with the intention of drowning his opponent in blood - only slaves and the 15 million strong Soviet army were ever used for such tactics. Hell, you're not even right about the full plate thing: by the late 15th century, men-at-arms began to form the bulk of professional armies, and each and every one of those were clad in full plate armour.

Concerning gambesons, quilted padding can actually be more than adequate protection against sword cuts and can even dampen the blow of blunt weapons like maces. It is in fact not dissimilar in construction to the modern kevlar we use to stop bullets.)