Uploaded November 2022 | Updated September 2026, 5 days ago
‘Arrows vs Armour’ is back and we are shooting medieval war arrows at the top half of an armoured knight using armour and arrows that are correct in every detail. The main film shows exactly what happened to the armour and the arrows.
Of course we think of a knight wearing plate armour, but much of his defences made use of mail armour so we need to investigate how this works.
Modern made replica mail of the best quality, a quality as good as the medieval mail is prohibitively expensive for our project. We could afford the aventail and the front of the standard collar in this material, but the cost of a shirt was beyond us. So here we set up a comparative test shooting against the best quality hand made mail and a sample of commercially made mail to see how they differ and use the results to help inform our discussions.
We have also put together a website hosting all the films, documents, supplier contacts and biographies for this series of films todtodeschini.com/youtube-projects/arrows-v-armour-2
Arrows vs Armour 2 – Main film youtu.be/ds-Ev5msyzo
Arrows vs Armour 2 – Plate tests youtu.be/C0TfSW0FfiA
Arrows vs Armour 2 – Arrowhead tests youtu.be/30RuqOH-7xw
Arrows vs Armour 2 - How powerful is a war bow? youtu.be/qZotewSan_k
Produced by
todcutler.com and todsworkshop.com
Music: Rise - by TwinsMusic - Licenced from Bensound.com
‘Arrows vs Armour’ is back and we are shooting medieval war arrows at the top half of an armoured knight using armour and arrows that are correct in every detail. The main film shows exactly what happened to the armour and the arrows.
Of course we think of a knight wearing plate armour, but much of his defences made use of mail armour so we need to investigate how this works.
Modern made replica mail of the best quality, a quality as good as the medieval mail is prohibitively expensive for our project. We could afford the aventail and the front of the standard collar in this material, but the cost of a shirt was beyond us. So here we set up a comparative test shooting against the best quality hand made mail and a sample of commercially made mail to see how they differ and use the results to help inform our discussions.
We have also put together a website hosting all the films, documents, supplier contacts and biographies for this series of films todtodeschini.com/youtube-projects/arrows-v-armour-2
Arrows vs Armour 2 – Main film youtu.be/ds-Ev5msyzo
Arrows vs Armour 2 – Plate tests youtu.be/C0TfSW0FfiA
Arrows vs Armour 2 – Arrowhead tests youtu.be/30RuqOH-7xw
Arrows vs Armour 2 - How powerful is a war bow? youtu.be/qZotewSan_k
Produced by
todcutler.com and todsworkshop.com
Music: Rise - by TwinsMusic - Licenced from Bensound.com
