Board Thread:Middle Earth Roleplays/@comment-26347028-20160404235546/@comment-26347028-20160429063758

Aramirtheranger wrote:

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. When your arrowhead is shite in the way those were, you get what you're given.