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Message: <blockquote data-quote="LGodamus" data-source="post: 200701" data-attributes="member: 1039">on piercing full platearmor was at its heaviest  near the beginning of the renaissance, and at that time it was quite common to "proof test" armor by firing a musket at it from point blank range...if it pierced the armor was considered inferior and was scrapped. This only applies to the breast plate and helm of course , as other supplemental armor really didn't gain much thickness. contrary to popular belief firearms only caused the decline of armor indirectly. It wasn't overnight people just said hey our armor sucks against guns lets quit using it.  It became an arms race of sorts with armor getting better as guns increased in firepower, so at any given period the newest armor was impenetrable by a firearm in the killing zones of a human body, but it became increasingly more expensive and difficult to keep redesigning what was already costly armor.   Then plate armor would have been quite an investment, much like buying a rolls royce or some such nowadays....so its easy to see why it became too costly to keep upgrading your armor everytime someone made a bigger badder caliber of gun.</blockquote>