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Babbit55 posted...

plate armour had no "unprotected sections" really, even then the joints had plates covering them and chain would often be patched onto the padding beneath to add extra protection (Double stacking Chain and plate was pointless and would have been really tiring too!)

...the protection at the joints tended to be far more vulnerable because it wasn't a solid piece of metal and, even then, you'd have some mail at the gaps. Thrusting through mail is far easier than thrusting through plate although, it should be mentioned, even mail provides solid protection and you'd usually have an additional layer of padding (like a gambeson) under the mail.

Cacciato posted...

You can have a suit of armor with covered joints and still be easily mobile.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hlIUrd7d1Q

You can clearly see mail at the joints (and in even more areas than that), which isn't going to be able to resist penetration nearly as well as solid plate. (After all, if it could, people would have just stuck with wearing mail instead of plate.) And it's worth noting that -- depending on where you strike -- you technically don't need to pierce the mail to seriously injure an opponent. For example, blunt force trauma to the neck can prove fatal.
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