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Ben P.
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Posts: 200 Location: Mountainous Terrain
Tue 13 Jan, 2009 7:39 am
How effective was armor of proof?
The title is self evident, discuss! :D

BTW Is it true that a Lorica Segmenata can shrug off a ballista bolt?
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Kjell Magnusson
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Posts: 123 Location: Sweden
Tue 13 Jan, 2009 10:38 am
Probably depends a lot on when and how it was proofed against what. From what I can recall Swedish breastplates in the late 17th century where proofed by placing them against a stuffed sack, and then shooting them with the standard infantry musket at twenty paces. These breastplates would have been about 8mm thick I think. Use less powerful weapons to proof with, and you could end up with considerably weaker (and lighter) armour passing.
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M. Eversberg II
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Posts: 1,435 Location: California, Maryland, USA
Tue 13 Jan, 2009 11:08 am
Segmentata cannot "shrug off" a ballista bolt, no.

M.
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Ben P.
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Posts: 200 Location: Mountainous Terrain
Tue 13 Jan, 2009 12:06 pm
M. Eversberg II wrote:
Segmentata cannot "shrug off" a ballista bolt, no.

M.


Okay thanks for the info
I was just wondering because I heard about a show on The History Channel (Before the days of modern
marvels and apocalypse) where a bolt bounced off

BTW does anyone know where I could find this video?

Thanks for the info on proofed plate
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Dan Howard
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Posts: 3,642 Location: Maitland, NSW, Australia
Tue 13 Jan, 2009 1:45 pm
Ben P. wrote:
I was just wondering because I heard about a show on The History Channel (Before the days of modern
marvels and apocalypse) where a bolt bounced off


The test sample didn't shrug it off. The plates were severely dented and would have caused blunt trauma to the wearer. However the test piece used plates that were thicker that what was typically worn by the legionaries.
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Lafayette C Curtis
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Posts: 2,698 Location: Indonesia
Sun 18 Jan, 2009 8:04 am
Arr ye matey! Thar search function is yer best friend:

http://www.myArmoury.com/talk/viewtopic.php?t...stol+proof
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