Uploaded December 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
‘‘Arrows vs Armour’ is back! This time we had an armoured soldier of 1450 in our sights. All of him. He was hit many, many times by our 7 warbow archers and in this film I look at the damage caused by the strikes and the implications for the man inside. But this film follows on directly from our main Arrows vs Armour 3 film, so to get the most out of this film, watch that first!
Every strike is highlighted, examined and discussed so we can fully understand what happened in the arrow storm made by our host of archers.
This depth of examination is particularly important because he was wearing 3 new state of art pieces of armour that we have not used before, the visored sallet (helmet), the bevor (plate neck guard) and the brigandine (flexible steel body armour). But of course we were also using an arrowhead new to us, but loved by the English; steel tipped, bladed, barbed and lethal.
The brigandine is thinner and cheaper than the old style breastplates but how has it and the rest of the armour held up against the new hard steel arrows? Watch on to see every nuance and detail.
Like all the films in this series, it has only been made possible by the generous funding of our backers.
The main Arrows vs Armour 3 film can be found here youtu.be/SFFgcTzCvMo?si=q5FUW_5u_tYVZNIi
We have made two previous series and the main films can be found here.
Arrows vs Armour 1 youtu.be/DBxdTkddHaE?si=3BChtTglj71z1zCC
Arrows vs Armour 2 youtu.be/ds-Ev5msyzo?si=2Z_wyIEB9-WA2ZJh
Arrows by Will Sherman of Medieval Arrows - medievalarrows.co.uk
Sallet and bevor by Francois L’Archeveque - flarcheveque.wordpress.com
Brigandine by Armour Services Historical - armour-services-historical.co.uk
Mail collar by Phil Parkes - philparkesmaille.com
Arming cote by The Sempster - facebook.com/TheSempster
Music: Rise - by TwinsMusic - Licenced from Bensound.com
‘‘Arrows vs Armour’ is back! This time we had an armoured soldier of 1450 in our sights. All of him. He was hit many, many times by our 7 warbow archers and in this film I look at the damage caused by the strikes and the implications for the man inside. But this film follows on directly from our main Arrows vs Armour 3 film, so to get the most out of this film, watch that first!
Every strike is highlighted, examined and discussed so we can fully understand what happened in the arrow storm made by our host of archers.
This depth of examination is particularly important because he was wearing 3 new state of art pieces of armour that we have not used before, the visored sallet (helmet), the bevor (plate neck guard) and the brigandine (flexible steel body armour). But of course we were also using an arrowhead new to us, but loved by the English; steel tipped, bladed, barbed and lethal.
The brigandine is thinner and cheaper than the old style breastplates but how has it and the rest of the armour held up against the new hard steel arrows? Watch on to see every nuance and detail.
Like all the films in this series, it has only been made possible by the generous funding of our backers.
The main Arrows vs Armour 3 film can be found here youtu.be/SFFgcTzCvMo?si=q5FUW_5u_tYVZNIi
We have made two previous series and the main films can be found here.
Arrows vs Armour 1 youtu.be/DBxdTkddHaE?si=3BChtTglj71z1zCC
Arrows vs Armour 2 youtu.be/ds-Ev5msyzo?si=2Z_wyIEB9-WA2ZJh
Arrows by Will Sherman of Medieval Arrows - medievalarrows.co.uk
Sallet and bevor by Francois L’Archeveque - flarcheveque.wordpress.com
Brigandine by Armour Services Historical - armour-services-historical.co.uk
Mail collar by Phil Parkes - philparkesmaille.com
Arming cote by The Sempster - facebook.com/TheSempster
Music: Rise - by TwinsMusic - Licenced from Bensound.com
