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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Coroc" data-source="post: 7863117" data-attributes="member: 6895991">Well I got my knowledge partially from matt eastons scholagladiatora youtube channel and he did practical experiments on that.[MEDIA=youtube]SWBUFvQvOBQ[/MEDIA]here, he also got some more stuff on that topic and he is afaik professor for history and practices HEMAHis channel is a wellspring of info.Of course thin steel plates of bad craftsmanship could eventually be penetrated with a lucky shot. And of course later blackpowder guns especially rifles would penetrate even well made breastplate.But I highly doubt the claim that a knights well made armor would simply be pierced 2x by a longbow arrow. That is Hollywood where also swords just pierce armor.You know there is one fact: It is estimated that in medieval times arrows caused most deaths amongst soldiers. But that was due to the fact that most soldiers were not armed that well, and even a scratch could mean infection and death. The purpose of armor back then was not to lessen damage in battle, it was to not get injured bleeding at all, just because of that.Plate armor did have points where it is vulnerable, joints and helmet slits etc, and if the arrow hits there it has some good effect but other than that chances were higher  to die for a knight in plate if the arrow did kill his horse and he breaks his neck in the fall than by a direct hit.</blockquote>