Low-Tech Armor with the Strength of Ten Men

[Tomsdad]

Originally Posted by sir_pudding

I'd imagine, given the limits on the hand fabrication of quality armor, and especially with the structural limits of mail thickness that they would layer even with custom made pieces.

Yeah I was thinking more you can't layer entire sets of plate layered over another entire set of plate even if you could in theory carry the weight. (Which is a point about articulation again)

And TBH I wasn't even thinking of mail. I think with mail in terms of thickness you have to layer that, as there's only so thick you make a single layer of mail (or there's only so thick you make the links and join them up) and maintain flexibility