Kierato wrote:
Gallo wrote:
ProfessorCirno wrote:
ElyasRavenwood wrote:
Now I am sure there are plenty of people who know far more then I do about history. But I seem to remember, it was guns that ushered out heavy Armor, (by-by mounted mail clad knight) and it was the cannon I believe that made Swiss cheese out of Castle walls.
You remember incorrectly.
Really? I reckon Elyas's brief summary of the decline of armor and castles is pretty accurate.
It was the trebuchet that ended the castle walls.
And plate armor saw use as recently as World War I (although by that time firearms were advanced to the point that the armor provided no protection against them). For hundreds of years, plate armor was used to negate firearms, fairly successfully. Early firearms provided no more threat to the armored warrior than the crossbow. The decline of armor had more to do with weight than uselessness.
