A metal plate or section of plating that forms part of armor protecting the arm.
Compound from arm and plate. Armplates evolved in design throughout the medieval period as metalworking techniques improved.
Armplate design was an engineering problem—they had to be thick enough to stop weapons but thin enough that soldiers could actually move and fight, and different smiths had wildly different solutions.
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