Quote Originally Posted by Conrad_Jalowski View Post
Zenrax, the common misconception is that medieval knights wore full body plate mail armor for their entire period of existence.

Medieval knights only wore full body plate mail armor beginning in the 16th century or the 1500's during the Great Italian Wars from 1494-1559 C.E. These heavy cavalry units or gendarme were utilized by the Valois and Bourbon dynasties of France so as to charge and break though the tercios or pike and shot formations [composed of halberdiers, pikemen and harquebusiers]. The compagnies d'ordonnance in France were utilized for recruiting heavy cavalry units for a permanent standing army of heavy cavalry.

Cataphract units were first fully integrated to the Roman army by Emperor Gallienus during the 2nd Century C.E due to Eastern influences through the use of such heavy cavalry by the Palmyrenes, Sassanian Persians, etc. Even the kataphractoi/cataphract units of the Byzantine Empire and the clibanaphoroi/clibanarii units of the Sassanian Persians did not wear full body plate mail but chain mail armor, lamellar armor, etc.
conrad its a game chill man