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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sejs" data-source="post: 1798816" data-attributes="member: 4910">Incorrect.  The rings bend and break when hit hard enough - smack around a coat of mail long enough and it'll start to fall to pieces on you.  That's okay though, that's normal - the rings are getting torn to buggery and back so you, the wearer, don't.  Any suit if armor that sees combat will have to be maintained during downtime; for chain and ring type armor, that means straightening and patching rings.  Lots of 'em.  But hey - at least you're not having to patch a rend in a plate.  At least with chain you can fix it up well just sitting around the campfire one evening.  All flexible armor has this problem.  A half-inch of stuffed padding isn't going to stop your collarbone from breaking when someone hits it with a mace full-force.  It will make the armor much more tolerable to wear, however, and does a pretty good job at giving torn rings something other than your flesh to dig into.  The only thing greater than mankind's potential, is mankind's potential for stupidity.</blockquote>