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<blockquote data-quote="QuentinGeorge" data-source="post: 8293923" data-attributes="member: 20990"><p>The idea that "gunpowder ended armor" is a persistent myth. I mean, sure, eventually armour wasn't cost-effective against the firearms available (18th century), but there was never a period where armor was useless.</p><p></p><p>And gunpowder arrived a lot earlier in European warfare than people expect....</p><p></p><p><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/EarlyCannonDeNobilitatibusSapientiiEtPrudentiisRegumManuscriptWalterdeMilemete1326.jpg/1280px-EarlyCannonDeNobilitatibusSapientiiEtPrudentiisRegumManuscriptWalterdeMilemete1326.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 500px" /></p><p></p><p>...and armor didn't reach its apogee until the Spanish conquest of the Americas.</p><p></p><p><img src="https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-35c12931e1212defd226b86cf656534c" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>Clearly no one told Cortez and co that the money they spent on their fine cuirasses was wasted.</p><p></p><p>Or, indeed, centuries later, these cavalrymen of Waterloo:</p><p></p><p><img src="https://i.pinimg.com/originals/80/be/56/80be563268c2cdd341921687742cd4c4.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>It is very odd that D&D players seem fine with plate armor and breastplates, but very troubled by gunpowder, even though the latter is more authentically medieval than the former, and I think part of this, is the absurd pop-culture beliefs about firearms. The effectiveness they have now is a much more recent things. Pre-Victorian era they weren't the killing machines you might think.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="QuentinGeorge, post: 8293923, member: 20990"] The idea that "gunpowder ended armor" is a persistent myth. I mean, sure, eventually armour wasn't cost-effective against the firearms available (18th century), but there was never a period where armor was useless. And gunpowder arrived a lot earlier in European warfare than people expect.... [IMG width="500px"]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/EarlyCannonDeNobilitatibusSapientiiEtPrudentiisRegumManuscriptWalterdeMilemete1326.jpg/1280px-EarlyCannonDeNobilitatibusSapientiiEtPrudentiisRegumManuscriptWalterdeMilemete1326.jpg[/IMG] ...and armor didn't reach its apogee until the Spanish conquest of the Americas. [IMG]https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-35c12931e1212defd226b86cf656534c[/IMG] Clearly no one told Cortez and co that the money they spent on their fine cuirasses was wasted. Or, indeed, centuries later, these cavalrymen of Waterloo: [IMG]https://i.pinimg.com/originals/80/be/56/80be563268c2cdd341921687742cd4c4.jpg[/IMG] It is very odd that D&D players seem fine with plate armor and breastplates, but very troubled by gunpowder, even though the latter is more authentically medieval than the former, and I think part of this, is the absurd pop-culture beliefs about firearms. The effectiveness they have now is a much more recent things. Pre-Victorian era they weren't the killing machines you might think. [/QUOTE]
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