Individual armour plates didn't even catch on in medieval Europe until the late 13th century, and full suits of plate were not in widespread use until the late 14th - early 15th century. (Yes, that means that most of the Crusades were fought in chainmail, NOT in plate!) But when it rains it pours, so as soon as it started to be possible to produce plate, there was an arms race to produce in it in as large quantities as possible. In the heyday of the plate in the 15th and 16th century, it was common for entire armies to fight in full suits of plate armour, not just the "knights", which didn't even exist anymore as a separate social class because professional armies had already mostly replaced them by that time.

Now, a plate is handy in that it's practically invulnerable to swords. Which is why everyone and their dog started wielding maces, warhammers, and polearms which either caused indirect trauma through armour, penetrated due to heavy weight concentrated on a small point, or simply had enough momentum to not care. Or just used a powerful enough crossbow which did not require the lifelong training of an English longbowman. Of course, the development of firearms soon made full plate obsolete altogheter, so in the late 16th century infantry started getting rid of it, followed by cavalry. By the 17th century mostly only specialized heavy cavalry units used plate (note: professional soldiers, not noblemen playing "knights"), and after 30 Years War had shown light cavalry to be superior, plate armour went the way of the dodo by the 18th century. But in its final death throes, it did become the status symbol of a wealthy individual, without any practical purpose.

But history repeats itself, so nowadays we've got flak jackets, bulletproof vests, etc.

I still have to ask,what was the purpose of changing from full armor to barely none,except iron helmets,if with the beginning of firearms,they were still not very accurate,were very slow and complicated to reload and,for what I've read,didn't replace swords and sabres as primary weapons until early 19th century?

Some years ago I've started to try to find all the games I've played a long time ago,mostly Mega Drive and SNES games,but some PC games as well. The list is almost complete. Here are some good old gems from the few bits era:





Binge played this game when as a kid.





Very hard and beautiful game



For years tried to find the name of this one. The image of the generic Berlin Wall being rammed by a tank plus that level music struck in my head since I was a kid!



Played this game at a friend's house once. We both cracked our asses laughing at our players kicking the rival team player's balls. We even managed to get a red card that day,IIRC.



Toilet humour at its best.

I used to play a lot Star Wars Shadows of the Empire. The most characteristic thing of the game were the enemies falling from the cliffs and screaming "AAaaahh!". And the bosses,which were a pain.

Sir,you just dragged me into some very serious nostalgia from 10 years ago,when I frequently asked devs what the hell did happen with a lot of unfinished (and finished) FH vehicles (Me-323,PBY,BMW bike...).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I53HDr0-Qew

Batmetal is back

Talking about Batman,I like this one more 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qw-cIBPIHNw

Garotos podres - Batman

Not exactly listening now,but really want to know if anyone knows what music is this that play at the beginning of the video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66sTvdKDN3E

Thanks in advance!

Not WWII related.

Considering the Roman Empire extended at its peak till the Middle Eastern and heavily influenced many aspects in the western cultures,law and languages,then why at some of its former occupied territories (like Germany and England) the national languages spoken today are not part of the romance-languages family but rather from the germanic family?