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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Derren" data-source="post: 5879174" data-attributes="member: 2518">Yes, that is what I am saying. Someone with a plate helmet getting hit by a warhammer on the head with a strong swing ends up dead with his head crushed. If he did not wear armor the result would be the same.There is only a very tiny gray area where a hit would do enough damage to breach the armor but not enough to seriously injure the one wearing the armor and that also applies only to blunt weapons (tiny minority). Piercing weapons which were invented to be used against armor (that includes the warhammer. They have a spike for a reason) either get deflected, doing no damage at all or pierce through the armor and the wearer would be injured the same way as if he wore no armor at all.And as I said, there were also weapons used to bypass armor like the dagger which was more dangerous to a warrior in full plate than a sword which was not very good against plate armor at all compared to other weapons.</blockquote>