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How do you like the design of the armor overall? It always seems to be poorly made when it's put into a more serious setting to me. The legs are fully exposed as is the abdomen, throat and face. Even enchanted I can't buy that armor even remotely being effective for an actual combat situation, unless the other side is even worse equipped.

I’m not an armor expert by a long shot. What little I know is from cursory Google-fueled research. So, while I do agree that there seems to be a significant lack of protection for those mentioned areas, I also know there’s a reason it was designed that way. Historical precedence!

Historically, specifically medieval, horse armor wasn’t commonly extended to the legs, and rarely to the underside of the body. Coverage for the throat (a crinet) was a little more common but not every charger had one. Reason? Too expensive and complex to fully encase a horse in armor.The sets that existed were probably not battle-ready. According to what I found on the subject, complete barding like that saw mostly ceremonial use because of how expensive and complex they were, and I can only find paltry information on one maker. Couldn’t turn up any photos or recreations of that maker’s armor besides some art on a coin. (Not that I looked extremely hard.)

The fact that so little about it can be found says something about how impractical complete-coverage barding was for actual (battle) usage. xD

In a fantasy setting, though? Obviously people go nuts and the variance is huge. MLP armor in particular feels more egregious because the target is the horse itself, not an armored rider astride the animal. So the seemingly minimal armor doesn’t fly well in more serious settings in which the characters (and ergo battle targets) are sapient equines.

TL;DR: MLP armor has its roots in historical barding, but there are things it just does not do well because of various reasons. My feelings on it in general are “eh, it’s a kid’s show, it gets the point across”.

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I like this armor but i dont think it fits fluttershy

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Nukles in some beautiful new armor @jellybeanbullet designed! thanks again!

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(Here is a picture of Fadingstar in full armor that I drew and painted at like 5 in the morning. Some of the design may change as I notice a couple things that could be changed to better represent a warrior that travels the country.)

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