Detroitika - Tanner Jon A.
English Man-At-Arms, 1415
On October 25, 1415 at Azincourt, France, Henry V's army was outmaneuvered by the French on their run for the safety of Calais, an English-held port. Estimates vary widely, but the English were vastly outnumbered, somewhere in the range of 4:3 to 6:1. The French thought they had an easy victory, but their cavalry charges and on-foot advance were decimated by muddy fields, English archers, defensive staves of wood, and trust in chivalrous warfare. The archers stole the show for every textbook ever, but "the meat grinder" of the front line of men-at-arms destroyed the French infantry advance.
He wears a shortsleeved gambeson (red) and a brigandine (white). Gambesons were heavily padded defensive jackets, often quilted, and brigandines were close-fitting vests with series of steel plates riveted to the inside. All of those triangles of dots you see on the torso are the traditional pattern for the rivets. I outlined each 'plate' in light gray wrinkles, which I think are a step up from the wrinkles on the Fallschirmjager!
I'm excited to show you those leather gauntlets. It's all attached to the hand, not the arm, so they're movable and interchangeable and all!
He wields a hand-and-a-half or bastard sword, a modern term for a type of longsword which could be maneuvered with one or two hands.
I made sure that all his gear was used by both English infantry and archers on the field.
Enjoy! I'm making customs from The Witcher 2 and from the real Western Europe from 1450-1530, so expect some uploads!
English Man-At-Arms, 1415
On October 25, 1415 at Azincourt, France, Henry V's army was outmaneuvered by the French on their run for the safety of Calais, an English-held port. Estimates vary widely, but the English were vastly outnumbered, somewhere in the range of 4:3 to 6:1. The French thought they had an easy victory, but their cavalry charges and on-foot advance were decimated by muddy fields, English archers, defensive staves of wood, and trust in chivalrous warfare. The archers stole the show for every textbook ever, but "the meat grinder" of the front line of men-at-arms destroyed the French infantry advance.
He wears a shortsleeved gambeson (red) and a brigandine (white). Gambesons were heavily padded defensive jackets, often quilted, and brigandines were close-fitting vests with series of steel plates riveted to the inside. All of those triangles of dots you see on the torso are the traditional pattern for the rivets. I outlined each 'plate' in light gray wrinkles, which I think are a step up from the wrinkles on the Fallschirmjager!
I'm excited to show you those leather gauntlets. It's all attached to the hand, not the arm, so they're movable and interchangeable and all!
He wields a hand-and-a-half or bastard sword, a modern term for a type of longsword which could be maneuvered with one or two hands.
I made sure that all his gear was used by both English infantry and archers on the field.
Enjoy! I'm making customs from The Witcher 2 and from the real Western Europe from 1450-1530, so expect some uploads!