Armor Penetration and Armor resistance.

[hoplite14gr]

Paul McDonnell-Staff you got laudes for prompting me starting this.

I was also inspired to start this by a lot of inter imposing threads.
Admins please feel free to move where appropriate.

Hoplite metal armor I do not have much evidence.
Slingers though with lead billets could crack the bones under
the metal cuirass. Guess that´s the reason why Greek missle troops were mostly slingers rather than archers.

In the linothorax threads Jason Hofmann gave a very scientific experimetal
approach to linothorax rsistance.
I also did a questionable experiment with kitchen blades against linothorax
layers covering frozen meat.

Leather armor penetration.
http://www.romanarmy.com/rat/viewtopic.php?t=15387

Ancient medieval hide processing: (courtesy of travis Clark)
http://www.personal.utulsa.edu/~marc-ca ... l.html#cb3

I must specify that ancient hide armor evidence are weak
compaired to other types.

Somewhere there are threads about chain mail resistance.
If someone here knows where they are please post links.

Kind regards