SetSideBMay 24, 2024
@Play: Which Is Better, Ring Mail or Splint Mail?
Gary Gygax was a weird person. I won't get into his life or history or, the casual misogyny of AD&D character creation, or the Random Harlot Table. But he did know a lot about medieval weaponry and armor, and to some degree this obsessive interest
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@Play: Which Is Better, Ring Mail or Splint Mail?

Gary Gygax was a weird person. I won't get into his life or history or, the casual misogyny of AD&D character creation, or the Random Harlot Table. But he d

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barefootliamFeb 4, 2023

https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Casabo-LaCivilizacion-3/pages/261-knights/

Crusaders attacking Jerusalem, from a book of history of [Western] Civilization (Barcelona, 1881).

I'm not sure about climbing a wooden siege-ladder wearing metal ring-mail & carrying a flag-pole, nor about pointing a sword menacingly at a man with a bow, but it's the fantasy of raising the flag over enemy territory.

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Crusaders conquor Jerusalem

A knight in ring-mail holds the Crusaders’ flag aloft on the top of a castle wall. He points a sword at some defending bowmen just as another knight, climing a siege ladder to be next to him, is shot