This Game of Thrones TV Tuesday video contains a list of the best faction armors for the hit HBO series, Game of Thrones. This list is in no particular order, and does not contain every suit of armor from the show, just the ones that are standard wear for all the best factions an or armies from the show. It is mostly about appearance, but i also touch on realism and practicality. So, sit back and enjoy this edition of TV Tuesdays, and please excuse the bad editing. I was a touch under the weather while making this one.
Gilson Passos
20.02.2023Another grave flaw with the kingsguard armour is the lack of gauntlets.
这盛世如尼所愿
19.02.2023Stannis's armour
Croz Raven
19.02.2023All looks terrible & stupid imo. Basically typical Hollywood shenanigans.
Fanfichurtmyears
19.02.2023To be fair though the show armor was meant to look cool and be appealing to the average viewer . the armor as described and shown in the books makes a little more sense and is sometimes very different to that of its shows counterparts. The NW armor for example in the books sometimes has chainmail. Love your content though dude keep at it . But you should totally do an analysis of the armor as portrayed in the books, you can find plenty of illustrations online .
SpadaccinoLuciano
19.02.2023No mention of the Tully armor worn by the Blackfish, Hoster, and Edmure? What a shame!
Hazza Mac
19.02.2023the Baratheon amour is the best wasn’t mentioned
yunus dundar
19.02.2023I love city watch armor
Karl Triebel
19.02.2023Would have liked there to be more wooden round shields in the North. Great video by the way!
William Sanders
19.02.2023What about Tully chain mail?
CareraDrift
19.02.2023Targaryen Armor tho
Keptaro
19.02.2023Love the Greyjoy armor. Wish I had one, even if my wardrobe may smell like fish oil because of it
Holy Shaco
19.02.2023Mormont armor where??
Gucci G G 1
19.02.20231:15 "As such armor genuinely was in real life" I have yet to find any sort of "leather" and "wood" armor throughout western Europe history, granted there are some finds of "leather armor" found in Japan and some "wooden armor" as well, but these are quite rare, There was no such thing in Western Europe. I believe in eastern japan and china, they MAY have used "these materials" but, in Europe for training, you'd most likely wear some sort of padded coat, or a GAMBESON. again, great video though talking about the pros and cons about the GoT armors but, yea.. Wood and Leather armor for training… ehh lol
Josh Morris
19.02.2023I love the armor, but hate the helmets from the show. I expected more of the bascinet-style helmets with hinged visors, which are what I envisioned from the books. And great helms, either the flat top or rounded top versions.
Tywin’s armor is great… probably my favorite in the show, if not for that stupid helmet.
From the books, Victarion Greyjoy has a great set, with a helm fashioned like a kraken. And Jorah Mormont’s hodgepodge armor described at the end of Dance with Dragons sounds pretty awesome too.
Pr1nce0fH3ll
19.02.2023Man be sounding like Kermit the god damn frog
Jiří Seidl
19.02.2023Sry, but I just gotta disagree. The Stark armor is a poorly designed attempt at a coat of plates/brigantine. There shouldn’t be any of those gaps between plates – the plates overlap. This renders the armor very vulnerable to any sort of piercing attack, as the plates would direct them towards the gaps. The same goes for Mormonts armor. Ironically, Allisers armor is the most functional from all these designs.
For the Greyjoys, how does putting a layer of leather help with shock absorption? It does the opposite, it will catch blades and points, instead of deflecting them like plate does.
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19.02.2023What about the Dornish gambeson armor?
Wo
19.02.20232:43 Unpopular opinion, but I think characters look cooler WITH the helmets on. Can you imagine Iron Man being unmasked throughout the entirety of his fight scenes?
Wo
19.02.2023Honestly, I'm not a fan of the Unsullied armor. While the Lannister armor looked perhaps a little too fantasy, this comes across as "convenient for cosplay/Renaissance festival".
César García
19.02.2023What about the Golden Company?
absurdpizza
19.02.2023I hate how exposed kingsguards shoulder are
BigotGaming
17.02.2023remove random crit
Pepijn Kruiswijk
17.02.2023I love the Lannister helmets, they look like lions.
Wulf104
17.02.2023No love for the Burgonet dude
Peen Plays
17.02.2023The Lannister easily sport the most feasible and well-suited armor in the series. If the show were realistic, these dudes would almost be invulnerable, minus the obviously helmet flaws.
Haste Kulvaati
17.02.2023I think they should go back and GCI little round metal disks over the exposed armpits of the all characters.
Just for me.
Tomáš Pidík
17.02.2023In defence of the lannister helmet, it was probably inspired by a visored kettle helmet, wich without any neck protection is good enough for a footsoldier. But I do agree that mounted knights should wear some sort of bevor.
Thorn
17.02.20232nd Gen Baratheon Kingsguard (narrower helmet) armor is the best.
edi
17.02.2023You can also see the Starks wearing triple-layer armour (gambeson, mail, brigandine).
Speaking of the Lannister helmets: the area they cover is pretty much the same as a sallet with a visor. I never really understood why, but they were very popular in real-life medieval Europe.
Leaving the lower half of the head free allows for better breathing, speaking and heat loss, but IRL, they usually wore a gorget with a bevoir.
PS: the barbute-style helmets (those with a T- or Y-shaped cutout) are also to allow for better breathing, but also vision. In shows, they are usually badly represented, as they leave too much of the face unprotected (GoT and e.g. Archilles).
edi
17.02.2023IRL, some opted for less armor, even on the battlefield. The very basic armor would be half-armor, which covers the torso and the head. Conquistadors were big fans of this style. It often indicates that they were more worried about getting shot at than getting cut in combat. A 3/4 armor also covers the arms and upper legs. People rarely aim for the lower legs in combat and you can always lift them. The shins and calves are mostly at risk, when you're on horseback, or try to finish someone, who is already downed, or perhaps when someone uses a spear and switches between high and low attacks. Alternatively, if you are on a staircase, your legs become vulnerable as well. Ancient Greeks covered the shins because besides the head and the weapon arm, they were the only thing that actually protruded from behind their big roundshields. Adding bracers and greaves often results in limited mobility and adds weight to the ends of your limbs, which will make you slower and fatigue faster. This is worse than adding weight to your shoulders and hips. On the bright side, it will make empty hand attacks considerably more powerful. More importantly, protecting the forearms is a good idea, as they are quite vulnerable in swordfights and people block instinctively with their forearms… From personal experience, are the upper arms much less at risk than the forearms, or the torso (including the shoulders). Even the upper legs are typically more at risk. They are a bigger target, and move slower and unlike your arms, you don't block attacks with your shins, thus they are quite vulnerable.
PS: even a 1/2 armor makes punching pretty pointless, but makes you more vulnerable to wrestling, as your center of mass goes up.
sam
17.02.2023These armours are actually indian armours supplied from an indian company. They're indian designs which were worn in ancient India.
Ashley Pavlige
16.02.2023I loved the tyrell armor and hated that we only got to see it the one time, I was forever looking for it for the rest of the show
Mahlki
16.02.2023The Stark set is the best in my opinion cause it actually looks like an effective realistic armor that can be mass produced for foot soldiers
Jevo
16.02.2023In the books, euron has Valyrian steel armour
Bittu
16.02.2023Dorne armour?
codafett
16.02.2023Tully armor is pretty cool, but I like Lannister gear the best.
Apis4
16.02.2023A small note, Gambeson actually provides reasonable stabbing protection. It is not as good as… well just about anything a little harder and denser, even horn or wood or boiled leather, at impact weapons…. maces, morning stars, war hammers etc… or weapons which use velocity to imitate force… a little energy one end, translating to a lot at the naughty end… glaives, halberds, poleaxes etc….but a well made Gambeson, at least one designed to be exposed armour, is not so bad at stabbing.
Remember, if you are wearing Gambeson as padding…. chances are, it is under mail, scale or plates of some kind, be it lamellar, laminar, coat of plates, full harness or something like brigandine. So, such clothing… Akaton, or Jack as it was known, may be anything from eight to twelve layers…. but Gambeson proper… that same type of armour made as amour designed to be primarily the armour exposed to the enemy, would generally be MUCH thicker. Gambeson 25 to 30 layers thick was not unheard of. With having a tight, thick weave, each layer's grain running across the previous one, stitched down tight only each other, for that many layers.. well not only was it just about cut, slash and slice proof… but incredibly hard to pierce with light weapons, such as swords, javelins, short spears and light arrows shot from light bows.
At those kinds of layer levels, it could offer some reasonable dissipation even against the aforementioned pole or force weapons, though you'd probably still want some kind of additional doubling beneath it, and of course, it was so hot and sweaty in a Gambeson that often, such was not worn, soldiers simply wearing a light shift underneath instead.
A lot of people think Gambeson is weal to stabs, but a well made piece, using well woven material, woven from well made linen thread, once assemble in the manner one used, cross graining the weaves, for good 18 or 20 layers, or more, they really did become almost as stab proof as they were cut proof.
Nighthawk _2k
16.02.2023I don’t now, what all this medieval shows have with this Stannis Army Helmets. There are in Game of Thrones, The Witcher, Vikings and I hate them. They look so damn stupid and aren’t that much usefully in medieval times settings.
Ridgeback
16.02.2023Ser Vardis armor
Sean Poore
16.02.2023bruh why is jon snow wearing the dracula untold armor in the thumbnail?? 🤣
Hyphy Juice
16.02.2023The Lannister Armor should of had some type of cloth or hair coming off the back and get rid of those dumbass swinging doors. It should of had something to make it look like a Lion's mane. The Targaryen helmet we see Daemon wear in House of The Dragon have red feathers on top. It's really cool and no other houses have this in GoT.
Colonel. Halberstern
15.02.2023I think you should re-examine Stannis’s bannermen. There armour is totally deferent to the gold cloaks, they wear actual renaissance helmets and a hefty coat of plates.
R0n1n
15.02.2023The neck guard thing is pronounced “gorjet” just a respectful fyi 🙂
L.U King
15.02.2023You are the best! Thank you!
L.U King
15.02.2023Lannister Armor is my favorite my only issue is no greaves/cuisse but that’s for all the houses I’m sure for the show it would be time consuming with all the movement but wtf…
Naim Razali
15.02.2023review dothraki armor
John Cannon
15.02.2023Almost all of the armor in the show is junk. The Hound's, the Mountain's and Brienne's are the only halfway decent suits that come to mind.
Beyond that it is almost all junk.
The reason fantasy armor usually looks cooler than historical armor is because it doesn't have to actually work.
The northern Stark "Coat of plates" falls victim to the same error that you see of the "Braveheart" armor which is completely ahistorical. Why is it ahistorical junk? Because the plates don't overlap. A spear or other weapon thrust into it would merely skip off of one of the plates it might encounter and penetrate the space in between. It's junk armor.
Sam Evans
15.02.2023should re do add house of the dragon armies
Kevin Gumfory
15.02.2023its funny that you think royal armor is anything more than ornamental.
Scott Juhnke
15.02.2023The Unsullied Armor is a joke. It's just a bunch of Wannabe Bikers. The Shields are too small to be useful in the absence of Leg Armor. The lack of any real "formed" Leather Plates means they are protected by, essentially, nothing. Had the Armor had a more Hoplite feel to it, it might have been believable.
As it stands, in a battle, regardless of the opponent, the Unsullied would be outclassed.