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[Sean Mirrsen]

Although that particular maille would be useless against piercing attacks, I think.

[Comrade]

Then wear a breastplate on top.

[Shrugging Khan]

It'd definitely make it harder for piercing attacks to reach vitals. Wear some padding below and survivability increases a lot.

[Genoraven]

It'd definitely make it harder for piercing attacks to reach vitals. Wear some padding below and survivability increases a lot.

That and, maille would also be riveted not butted like the picture I posted. It's just to show the pattern.

But maille is made to protect against slashing, not stabbing.

[Julien Brightside]

Here's an entrance to a dwarven kingdom.

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[Comrade_Fregge]

Heres the silluette of a goblin with a halberd.

[Comrade]

Clown

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[nbonaparte]

Clown

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isn't this more like a DF clown?

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[claer_runway]

that isn't a halberd, it's a great axe. people have been over this.

[nbonaparte]

The halberd consists of an axe blade topped with a spike mounted on a long shaft. It always has a hook or thorn on the back side of the axe blade for grappling mounted combatants.

Emphasis mine.

[Sensei]

Yeah, that goblin's just holding an axe.

Also, Comrade, your image got taken down by imageshack for some reason.

[Thief^]

Here's an entrance to a dwarven kingdom.

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Why's the image out of focus?

[Shaio]

Because it is heresy to look upon the entrance while sober.

[Miuramir]

he was just lazy

I prefer to think of it as "efficient."   

Genoraven, if you mean that the links themselves are incorrectly oriented, I didn't know that.   I still have that sitting around; maybe I'll stop being efficient and fix it.

Yeah it's take longer to draw maille than to actually make it. I don't blame you for using a pattern.

The pattern should look like this. For your information.

While basically agreed, that's only one pattern.  A great source for a wide variety of chainmail patterns (historical and fantastic) is The Ring Lord's sample page.  Note that many of these have deliberately been stretched out to show the structure; in use a lot of the patterns would have the rings overlapping more. 

In general, part of the shock-absorbing property of standard chainmail is in the draping.  If you're using standard European 4-in-1, there's one axis it "stretches" in far more than the other; if you're wearing it already "stretched" under its own weight, you're loosing some of the protection and much of the flex that makes it more comfortable.  It does cover more area with less metal, and if you're purely looking for slice/abrasion resistance it's ok, but for anyone who actually expects to be attacked with a sword (etc.) the proper direction is very important.

[Comrade]

I fixed my link

Clown

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