The increasing proliferation of plate forced innovation for weaponsmiths to counter plate and practically every weapon of the medieval era had some alteration to its form to adapt. True, custom-crafted, fashionable armors by the greatest German and Italian craftsmen could cost a kings ransom, but less extraordinary, yet highly protective plate armor and armor pieces were being produced in large numbers at workshops where craftsmen divided and specialized their labor.
Plate by this time was no longer the sole reserve of the nobility and the well-heeled knights.
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Earlier chainmail-based armors could only serve to help in preventing a cut or puncture through the metal ring mesh, but they could not satisfactorily absorb enough of the force of a strike to make most warriors willingly discard the use of a shield.īy the late Medieval era it was increasingly common for professional men-at-arms, town levies and even quality archers to sport more plate-based armor pieces. Unlike chainmail, the steel plates of advanced armors could both dissipate and deflect the kinetic energy of the strike. By the late Medieval Era armor had advanced to the point that that a shield was no longer a necessary accoutrement.
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