Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-17114085-20170908205632/@comment-25073873-20170920154750

(Concerning Cannon Fodder - tell that to terrorists, or even Sun Tzu himself who advocated controlled sacrifice if it completed the mission. Need I go further?)

(Plate becoming common was due to metallurgical improvements. Please, as I mention, PAYING for plate for all the footsoldiers would have been difficult had the platemail remained expensive. Making it got a lot cheaper thanks to technology, not because they automatically wanted footment to get it. Therefore, the full plate thing doesn't even invalidate the economic argument)

(Also, please do not compare quilted padding to Kevlar. Kevlar is bonded to ceramic plate to make the hard plate inside the load bearing vests and helmets. It's closer to platemail in nature. Heck, Aramids like Kevlar are hard plastics if not in very thin fibers and spun. You aren't making padding with that.)