Comments by "" (@neutronalchemist3241) on "The Knight Of Hope - Combat Evaluation" video.

The Barbuta was not necessarily unrealistic. There were tons of them, with hundreds of different shapes, but it was more an helmet for a city militia than for a knight. However a knight that knew he would have fought on foot could have chosen it voluntarily, because a visored helmet would have impaired his vision and breath too much.
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Still Hollywood or Netflix production have a budget of millions, and the armors ot the MAIN four or five characters seems to be taken at random from a depot. Wrong size, wrong timeframe, wrong pairing of the various pieces...
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@njarlblack1467 Hollywood armors are often not at the level of ready made armors, and ready made armors usually don't put a 15th century helmet over a 12th century mail armor. In movies or productions that costed hundreds of millions and are set in specific timeframes we se SPECIFICALLY TAILORED armors that make no sense at all. They didn't exist in any given time. Good quality specialised armorers work with the measures you send them. No need to send the actors around.
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@njarlblack1467 "The King" for example has a black armour for the main character that could have came from a fantasy movie. It wasn't true to any real style. It had been made specifically, someone paid, probably a lot, for it, and it was laughable. Serious reenactors have their tailored armors made by sending their measures to the armorers. You can make mistakes, like you can make them doing anything. The armor will be anyway MUCH better than what's usually shown in Hollywood or Netflix standard productions.
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The Almogavars routinely defeated French heavy knights, and their weapons were a pair of javelins and a fighting knife, but in their case the experience was reversed. They were specialised anti-cavalry troops, and the knights were often noblemen with scarce real fight experience.
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None prevented them to do so. Knowing to have to fight on foot, a knight could have pourposedly chosen a barbuta, because a visored helmet would have impaired his vision and breath too much.
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The Barbuta was not necessarily unrealistic. There were tons of them, with hundreds of different shapes, but it was more an helmet for a city militia than for a knight. However a knight that knew he would have fought on foot could have chosen it voluntarily, because a visored helmet would have impaired his vision and breath too much.
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