Comments by "Evan" (@MrEvanfriend) on "" video.

These tests that they do in modern documentaries tend to use cheap butted chainmail (where the links are just bent closed) rather than the historically accurate and far more labor intensive riveted (where the links are closed with a rivet). The paynim's arrows weren't designed to defeat heavy armor, and they did not have the bodkin tips that Europeans used to defeat mail. That being said, I imagine the heat of the desert was as dangerous to the Crusaders as the Turk was. I've fought in the desert wearing modern armor, and it's uncomfortable at best, and requires constantly drinking water. I can only imagine what it would be like to wear steel armor over heavy padding. Must have been like being in an oven.
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