Aye, from what I've read, the Byzantines had something of a Commonwealth-type arrangement going on with pretty much all the local tribes and peoples, similar to Gurkha contingents in the present-day British army. If a group or ethnicity had military value, the Byzantines were grasping enough to use ...

The matter wasn't convincingly answered. How would Byzantine warriors have been equipped in the 15th century? I'm not interested only in the very end of the Byzantines, namely the 1450s, but the years leading up to the fall as well. I think I'd also be interested in the various auxiliaries they used...

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Duke Icefalcon wrote:I am here in Warsaw at the captain's meeting. Most of the teams are very cool. Warsaw is an interesting place..........

Most?

I am still curious about this offhand comment. What teams weren't cool and why?

With a few months having passed, can this work now be made available to Archivers? I, for one, would be quite interested in reading it closely.

I don't know why, but the fauld looks to be a bit off to me. It almost seems like it's too small. Whenever I imagine the effigies of the period, I see the faulds as being longer than that. Hm, there was a very good picture of James Arlen Gillespie I think in a slightly post-Agincourt white harness a...

Mild Steel?

It looks excellent, but will it not dent under the crash of a lance or the lustie strike of a pollaxe? In such cases, when the steel does dent, I assume there are ways to return it to its previous shape? I ask because I do not have much experience in these matters.

For an event like this, one needs new armour right? :D I had a look at three armorers from the Ukraine and after some issues (at my end) I worked out a deal with Maxim from Wild Armoury. He is 10/10 for communication, updates, work, price and everything. That harness is looking fabulous. What kind ...

I've changed the name of the topic because I really went on a tangent. I have a few questions for the folks of the Archive, whom I know to be generous and willing. First of all, What the hell kind of armour is this ? It looks like the very latest version of a Kastenbrust, right before Gothic came in...

Well, I am quite well versed with the proliferation of certain armour types in Germany, guided by the wisdom of surviving effigies. I have a thread on the evolution of Italian armour, in Historical Research, but I've gone on lengthy tangents about the evolution of English and German armours, with ba...

Given your weight and your height, the descriptive word "lance" comes to mind. :P Damn, man, you're almost as tall as I am and yet you weigh 20 kilos less. I'm 13 Stone, more or less. I am 185 cm tall so that would be 6.1 feet I guess, judging from my telephone's converter at least. Either way, it b...

I must say that the answers thus far have been quite pleasing. Admittedly, I lie more on the visual side of things so I must admit that I would have preferred effigies or period images which would sate my curiosity, seeing as there are more readily available than books. Books I have and books I shal...

My latest acquisition: A new cuirass. It really changes the look of the kit: http://a8.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/190566_10150133314654940_505764939_6288890_6414161_n.jpg You look disturbingly cool in that. Congratulations for getting the period look spot-on like that. As a little curiosi...

I beg your collective pardons if this particular subject has been covered in the past. After searching quite a lot for it, I could not find anything in particular which matched my wishes and curiosities. My question is, how did Italian armour evolve from the classical late Fourteenth Century look (b...

I bow before your knowledgeable comments and thank you once more for taking the time to help me in my endeavour. I am part of a reenactment group from Romania and I have been closely studying matters of dress and costume, both military and civil, for the past two years or close enough as not to matt...

Hey Gwen, thanks for taking the time to answer these queries of mine. Would the closing method involve hidden buttons of some sort? Or eyelets? Enlighten me, please. Now I have another question for you, relating to this same subject. Given the image in the link below: http://roncea.ro/wp-content/upl...

Yes, in my enthusiasm I forgot to mention who the figure I was referring to actually was. For those curious, the man wearing that long garment over his armour is the Earl of Richmond, soon to be Henry the Seventh, king of England, king of France and Lord of Ireland. And, to wit, I have seen plenty o...

You know, I've a question regarding this very subject. There's always been an illustration by Graham Turner which has both fascinated and intrigued me, and the centre-piece of this fascination is the garment worn by one of its central figures. I am referring to one of the illustrations from the Ospr...