Authenticity:Generic - Warriors
From Regiapædia
Authenticity Guide
Kit Guide
| Kit Guide | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Description | Encouraged | Optional | Allowable | Unacceptable |
| Helm | Conical helm – riveted panels Domed helm – riveted Helms with aventails Helms without nasals |
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| Armour | Mail shirt length from below groin to knee (RICH) Unsplit or side split 6 - 8mm alternating riveted & welded 6 - 8mm riveted |
Simple leather gloves Leather jack, leather or cloth padded gambeson worn under mail |
Splinted arms or legs Lamellar / Scale Cuir Bouilli / Plate Mail covered gloves | |
| Shield | Large flat round shields that extend past the elbow by 2” or more Sewn on leather or rawhide edge Painted in a single colour |
Smaller shields that don’t cover the elbow Nailed on leather or rawhide edge Painted in a cross or radiating curved lines Painted in up to 3 colours |
Unbossed shield | |
| Spear | 1-handed spears | 2-handed spears with blade of 8” – 16” | Angon | |
| Knife | Seaxes with blades from 7” to 10” Wood Handles Decorated knife sheath horizontally hung |
Un-sheathed knives Unworked antler handles Wooden handles with bark | ||
| Sword | Swords with Tri-lobe, Five-lobe or Tea-Cosy pommels | Un-scabbarded swords Painted scabbards Elaborately decorated scabbards | ||
| Other | ||||
| Missiles | Self-bow with arrows in quiver Javelins |
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