@cozykaffe@snouts.online also yes it cuts through armour... but only japanese armour... which was basically lacquered papiermaché. so.... yyyeah.
@Nine @cozykaffe It was quite good armor given what they had to make it out of, though. Like Kaffe said, the iron they had access to was pretty low-quality, and they didn't have advanced methods of refining it or of producing quality steel.
@Nine @cozykaffe I imagine it wasn't as heavy as full plate armor, either, though what amounts to a few dozen phonebooks strapped to you is probably far from weightless.
I think the mythbusters did an episode on paper armor once, though I don't remember the results.
@Rosemary @cozykaffe@snouts.online I think mostly it was designed to protect against a hail of arrows because they certainly had an awful lot of archers. And for that purpose, fantastic.
