Board Thread:Middle Earth Roleplays/@comment-26347028-20160404235546/@comment-26863727-20160428193832

Maltalidenta Kwuitidherali wrote:

Aramirtheranger wrote: (Sorry, posted at the same time. And barbed arrows are anti-light armor. You'd want a bodkin for armor piercing. And depending on where they strike they may or may not fully penetrate.) From twelve feet with a longbow, the type of arrow doesn't matter. They'll both penetrate both things, especially thin armour designed to allow mobility. The thickest battle armor was about 4 millimeters. Even that was little worse in regard to mobility than gambeson. And even at ridiculously cost range(about a foot, it looks like), science has proven that hardened steel late medieval plate will be damaged by a bodkin but that the padding beneath would mean that the fellow wouldn't be so much as scratched. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=D3997HZuWjk

And that looks like a pretty thin plate, about 1 mm, by my estimate.