• Contramuffin@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Chest plates aren’t meant to be flat. They’re meant to be round. The reason is that rounded armor is structurally more stable and it’s easier to get a weapon to deflect off rounded armor than a flat armor. There should be plenty of space for breasts in regular medieval armor without needing any sort of modification.

    Having the chest plate fit the breasts actually introduces a point of weakness, since glancing blows will be deflected toward the heart.

    • Timecircleline@sh.itjust.works
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      3 months ago

      I watched a video where someone tried out boob shaped armour- the problem wasn’t the deflecting IIRC, it was that the armour itself came to something like a point against the chest so any impact HURT.