Okay, I have a few questions relating to medival armour.
1) What are vambraces?
2) What are the METAL pieces of armour that cover the feet? (excluding legs)
3) What are the METAL pieces of armour that cover the hands? (excluding arms)
Thanks for your help.
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Vambraces and...what?Follow
1) A made up name for a fake piece of armor.
2) Boots.
3) Gloves.
2) Boots.
3) Gloves.
1)Armour the protects the forearm.
2)Greaves
3)Gauntlets
Edited, Mon Jun 28 00:11:35 2004 by Altaramere
2)Greaves
3)Gauntlets
Edited, Mon Jun 28 00:11:35 2004 by Altaramere
Bracers, vambraces, and arm greaves are essentially the same thing: they protect the arm from the elbow to the wrist. Vambraces generally connote a sturdier armor construction such as plate mail. Vambraces are generally rigid and either a solid tube fastened over the arm, or hinged over the outside of the arm and fastened on the inside by straps or hooks. Bracers were forearm guards first worn by archers to protect them from the snap of the bowstring. In time, many other combatants wore bracers of leather or metal to help protect their arms from blows. Arm greaves are leather, metal, or mail protections for the arm; the name suggests they protect the same areas as bracers do (since leg greaves protect the leg from knee to ankle). -- The Forge
Which means Everquest, for one, uses the term incorrectly since it uses it as a generic arm armor used in conjunction with bracers.
Which means Everquest, for one, uses the term incorrectly since it uses it as a generic arm armor used in conjunction with bracers.
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