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What would you wield/wear into combat?


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The best things you can wear are durable but light armor. You need it to stop the blows but you also need to dodge a whole lot of blows as well.

The Mongols wore silks that were layered that acted as sort of "kevlar" of their day. It made riding light but also stopped arrow heads . . much of the heavy armor we see got the Crusaders slain when they went to war with west Asians who had faster made combat clothing. So it would be light yet durable for me with a sword and a dagger and an extra one in the boot . . . with a metal shield that can withstand any blow . .

The best things you can wear are durable but light armor. You need it to stop the blows but you also need to dodge a whole lot of blows as well.

The Mongols wore silks that were layered that acted as sort of "kevlar" of their day. It made riding light but also stopped arrow heads . . much of the heavy armor we see got the Crusaders slain when they went to war with west Asians who had faster made combat clothing. So it would be light yet durable for me with a sword and a dagger and an extra one in the boot . . . with a metal shield that can withstand any blow . .

Actually the silk didn't keep the arrowheads from penetrating. The arrow penetrated flesh but didn't cut the silk. This made it possible to remove the arrow withougt causing additional damage as when barbed arrowheads were used. Might have kept poison from the arrowhead isolated, too.
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Some plate and a firearm would do fine.

Firearms, once cheap enough to mass produce, would screw over every bit of Westerosi and ASoIaF military strategy. I was honestly waiting through AFfC for Joffrey to replace his hideous crossbow with a unique/oddity arquebus from Yi Ting.

Of course, any High Middle ages gun would've been clumsy, expensive, and impossible to find ammunition and powder for. Guns were just flashy crossbows in usage until the efficient distillation of potassium-nitrate from human urine (1669, when someone realized that soldiers piss a lot, and shoot a lot), iron-making and musketer proliferation (between 1600 and 1720), and charcoal-making (present since the Dark Ages, but greatly increased after each subsequent population boom).

Either way, a gun would probably scare any horse within a mile, and could kill the best-armored lord from several yards away. A crossbow would do the same, but without as much flash and noise (and with much more-available ammo. Try telling a Middle-Ages blacksmith you'd want nothing but round, custom-sized spheres of metal, for no use but shooting them at stuff).

Of course, any semi-automatic firearm could mesmerize and shock audiences enough to get you a knightship or lands, if played properly.

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