I dunno friend, if they were just employed to fuck up unruly poor people then I suppose that fit is fine but it’s gotta be really bad in an actual war, right? You mentioned long pikes and halberds, that’s exactly the sort of thing I would not want to meet while unprotected and with a unwieldy weapon. Then again, I’m not a 14th century mercenary and maybe they knew a thing or two.
16th century means you are fighting guns on the battlefield, though halberds were still used cause the guns were very slow.
But a bullet will pass through you if you were unarmored. If you had armor, the armor catches the bullet and then stabs you, so now you can’t even remove the armor anymore. So it’s worse… The bullet AND armor is embedded inside you.
I dunno friend, if they were just employed to fuck up unruly poor people then I suppose that fit is fine but it’s gotta be really bad in an actual war, right? You mentioned long pikes and halberds, that’s exactly the sort of thing I would not want to meet while unprotected and with a unwieldy weapon. Then again, I’m not a 14th century mercenary and maybe they knew a thing or two.
16th century and it makes a big difference.
16th century means you are fighting guns on the battlefield, though halberds were still used cause the guns were very slow.
But a bullet will pass through you if you were unarmored. If you had armor, the armor catches the bullet and then stabs you, so now you can’t even remove the armor anymore. So it’s worse… The bullet AND armor is embedded inside you.