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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Zardnaar" data-source="post: 7871395" data-attributes="member: 6716779">It was cheaper than chainmail, I posted a thread a while ago.  They had foundry cities were it could be mass produced. They had these water powered bellows and hammers to flatten it out.  It was cheap enough that professional mercenaries could afford it. Expensive but not omg levels of unaffordable. A lot of surviving armor is the jousting armor and royal ceremonial armor. That stuff is expensive because if the etching, Gilt, inlays and forging to give it blue hues etc. German armor was famous, so were the landsknect infantry. Might have been in Styria (Austria) where it was made. Strip all that crap off they had big Arsenal's of it to be used in times of war. Plate armor as we think of it was Renaissance not middle ages. What AD&D called platemail turned up 14th Century. I don't think there's any surviving examples but tombs have carvings of it.  They had workshops, specialized cities, proto mass production in the 16th Century. Another example. Venice had the arsenal where they could mass produced galleys.[MEDIA=youtube]w0C0XxMoNaw[/MEDIA]I think that's the one. 49:40 mark blue hue, it shows you how they probably made the flash stuff and a workshop for the mass produced stuff. The best stuff is bullet proof vs contemporary guns at realistic ranges.Kings were often poorer than one would think, there was a middle class, and the 3 estates thing was France not all of Europe.</blockquote>

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