lol here's your unsourced claim: > There's still no practical armor, in 2023, that could protect anyone from a crossbow at short to medium ranges. Unless you

lol here's your unsourced claim: > There's still no practical armor, in 2023, that could protect anyone from a crossbow at short to medium ranges. Unless you're purpose-building some kind of ultra-high-draw-weight crossbow with some very unusual bolt materials, you're not going to penetrate it Feel free to believe myths if you want, but they're simply not true[0] >The energy required to defeat a steel plate rises geometrically, not linearly, as the plate gets thicker, as Williams (2003) notes. In practice, a steel breastplate of decent (even just c. 2mm) thickness was functionally immune to handheld weapons and bows and crossbows except at extreme close range. You can see an example here of a high poundage (quite a bit higher than the 80lbs bows used by Williams in his test) longbow being shot into a steel breastplate at point-blank range. The breastplate is secured to the ground and there is no additional protection behind it – in terms of range, power, positioning this is an absolute worst-case test for the breastplate. It is barely scratched. >Crossbows can do somewhat better. Skallagrim tested a crossbow against both a lamellar (layered metal plates) armor and a breastplate – both of admittedly low quality – against a 350lbs crossbow and a 975lbs crossbow. While they are able to dent and punch holes in the breastplate, neither defeats it in a way that would wound a person wearing it. Range matters a lot – and these were fired at extreme close-range for the weapons. Now back to you: find me a source for your ridiculous claim that "There's still no practical armor, in 2023, that could protect anyone from a crossbow at short to medium ranges" Practical armor from 1000 years ago could stop them - and you seriously think armor today cannot? ------ [0] https://acoup.blog/2019/06/21/collections-punching-through-some-armor-myths/ https://acoup.blog/2019/06/21/collections-punching-through-s...