armthearmour:qsy-complains-a-lot:nightbringer24:Would the armour of the guy in front count as a coat
armthearmour:qsy-complains-a-lot:nightbringer24:Would the armour of the guy in front count as a coat of plates?A coat of plate is made of large plates connected between two layers of fabric or leather and is generally very rigid, this looks more like scale armor made of unusually large scales, where they are only attached by their top edge to a single layer of flexible material.In modern vernacular, these sorts of large scale setups are commonly called tegulated armor, in order to differentiate them from the more typically shaped smaller scales.They show up in art with some degree of regularity, although depictions of full body setups are relatively rare.They are most commonly seen as protective skirts,and sometimes as aventailsor helmets,although this dude seems to have them as an arm setup as well, which is pretty cool and unique.I know of only one extant version with these large, square plates (riveted to a textile backing and not laced to each other, which would make them lamellar) housed at the State Historical Museum in Moscow. It is, fittingly enough, a Russian example. -- source link