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Originally Posted by Kromm
[*]ease of maintenance in the field
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One of the reasons mail was preferred was its ease of construction and ease of repair. Rings could even have been made as piece work by the relatively unskilled in the winter by the fire, in the same way nails were made by children. All you need to repair it is a bag of rings and some simple hand tools. Plate armor is much more difficult by comparison (you can forge weld a plate over a hole in plate armor, but it requires a workshop and a lot of fuel).