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Originally Posted by Kax
Chain is tiring to wear because all, or almost all, of the weight is on your shoulders, not distributed.
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A lot of mail armour was custom-fitted to the wearer. It wasn't a shapeless tube like commercially available products today. Properly fitted mail has the weight more evenly distributed and isn't overly heavy on the shoulders. Tailoring it properly can also drop the weight by 5-10%.
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This, IIRC, is covered in RAW. However, it doesn't require the metalworking resources (equipment and people) that plate of any kind does.
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Mail requires iron of a higher quality than plate. Iron has to be very highly refined otherwise it can't be pulled through a drawplate to create the wire and the links can delaminate when cut from the mandrel or pierced with a drift.
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