If you’ve ever played Dungeons and Dragons, or a fantasy game where the research was taken from a Dungeon Master’s Guide and wondered what is “studded leather armour” ?
Well, it’s actually a brigandine and not only is it not studded leather (it just looks like it from outside) it’s also not really suitable for sneaking around or trying to get maximum advantage out of your personal agility.
The other great myth that Matt Easton dispels here is at 12:00 - the idea that soldiers were disposable. Trained soldiers were a precious commodity, particularly since if you ran out of them it made it easy for your neighbours to invade you.
They were in fact often so valuable that they received competing offers mid campaign - and could even become so valuable that they could start charging not to fight people. Seriously:
- wincenworks