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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Water Bob" data-source="post: 6249358" data-attributes="member: 92305">Maybe not full suits of plate as we think of during the Middle Ages, but some version of it and certainly breastplates are available in some parts of the world during the Hyborian Age.  Howard, himself, wrote of it in one of my favorite Conan stories, Black Colossus.A "sallet" is a helm certainly associated with full plate armor.  Though, in my own mind's eye, I prefer to think of Hyborian Age plate as something a bit different looking than traditional western Dark Ages plate.A sallet...<img src="http://www.ageofarmour.com/instock/salletdec05.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /><img src="http://therionarms.com/reenact/therionarms_c1090_model.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />Then, later, in the same story, Howard describes Conan wearing full plate...For those who argue that this is, indeed, Medieval style plate, it's hard to dispute them.</blockquote>