@cozykaffe also yes it cuts through armour... but only japanese armour... which was basically lacquered papiermaché. so.... yyyeah.

@Nine @cozykaffe@snouts.online 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.

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@Nine @cozykaffe@snouts.online 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 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.

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