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Cutting or stabbing through full plate armor with a sword. Why would anyone wear an armor that is easily cut or stabbed through?!
A lot of that sort of armor is more designed to deflect hits off of it. If someone can get a solid hit in, it's possible to cut through it.
Which leads to another pet peeve of mine, which is armor that's clearly designed in a way that it wouldn't be good at deflecting hits. Particularly anything for women that has cups for the breasts.
Chain mail, maybe. Plate armour? Not a chance.
You had to go around the plates.
I don't think cutting clean through chainmail is realistic - thrusting is very much so though!
An axe could presumably split into chainmail. Although I suppose it's just as likely to just break whatever is behind it. It's not a great armour for large blunt impacts.
Oh yeah, axe I can see. I was thinking swords.
Just like there were many forms of armour (plate was very expensive), there were many forms of hand weapons. And although the novels (3ven of the time) tended to romanticise the sword, it was mostly a secondary weapon, much like a handgun nowadays.
Well aware :) But since we werr talking movie tropes and swords, my mind was still there.
Would love to see some sources or testing that would supportnyour claim.
In real life it's more like going after a man sized can of tuna, with the bastard child of an axe, a hammer, and a crowbar.
That, or dagger in the gaps!