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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Imperialus" data-source="post: 69437" data-attributes="member: 893">Re: Re: Re: Plate Armor - It isn't really that heavy!Sure they ate better but archiological evidance suggests that in terms of sheer size and bulk most pesant soldiers and liveries were typically bigger than their nobel counterparts.  The pesants still wern't big by todays standards but, well lets put it this way I would be concidered quite big in the 15th century and I stand 6'0" and weigh 140 lbs.  I'm not saying that the knights were out of shape or anything but they wern't behemoths either.  In fact most knights were probably stronger than most people today but that doesn't mean they were big.  In fact small frames were seen as an advantage since you could carry the armour better.</blockquote>