{"id":45601,"date":"2014-09-30T16:07:31","date_gmt":"2014-09-30T22:07:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/09\/30\/combat-in-15th-century-armor.html"},"modified":"2014-10-13T14:47:04","modified_gmt":"2014-10-13T20:47:04","slug":"combat-in-15th-century-armor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/09\/30\/combat-in-15th-century-armor.html","title":{"rendered":"Combat in 15th Century Armor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, so all those DEX penalties for plate armor? Seems they were overblown.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, the Stealth penalties may have been understated.<\/p>\n<p>This is a cool video where they have some actual plate armor recreations, show how people can move in them, and then go through some combat techniques actually described in training guides of the time. <\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/sploid.gizmodo.com\/this-is-how-medieval-knights-fought-with-their-heavy-an-1640223813\">http:\/\/sploid.gizmodo.com\/this-is-how-medieval-knights-fought-with-their-heavy-an-1640223813<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div><iframe type='text\/html' width='100%' height='385' src='https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5hlIUrd7d1Q' frameborder='0'><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/YyLAQD7qJ8Y'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, so all those DEX penalties for plate armor? Seems they were overblown. On the other hand, the Stealth penalties may have been understated. This is a cool video where they have some actual plate armor recreations, show how people can move in them, and then go through some combat techniques actually described in training &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/09\/30\/combat-in-15th-century-armor.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Combat in 15th Century Armor&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,22,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-gaming","category-history"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":28541,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/07\/11\/warrior-princesses-in-todays-army.html","url_meta":{"origin":45601,"position":0},"title":"Warrior Princesses in Today&#39;s Army","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 11-Jul-12 10:30pm","format":false,"excerpt":"The US Army is figuring out that men and women need different body armor. 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