Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-17114085-20170908205632/@comment-24510587-20170920191331

(Before the revolution you're referring to, plate armour did not even exist. It was simply not viable to construct. The subsequent creation of plate saw that at first only knights had access to it, but fairly soon, nations equipped their entire armies with it. This was definitely not cheap - but it was certainly effective. By the time it truly became cheap to construct plate, however, it had already become obsolete thanks to the rise of firearms.

Your comparison is very inaccurate. Concerning blunt weapons, it's not going to entirely stop the blow, of course, but I did not claim that it did. And ignoring my point about estocs, are we?

The entire point of buying them expensive shit is making sure that the portion of them that is killed becomes smaller.)