In a Sky Dark With Arrows, Death Rained Down

[James A. Donald]

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Peter Gutmann wrote:
 > That's the traditional Agincourt interpretation.  More modern ones
 > (backed up by actual tests with arrows of the time against armour,
 > in which the relatively soft metal of the arrows was rather
 > ineffective against the armour)

You have this garbled.

According to
http://www.royalarmouries.org/extsite/view.jsp?sectionId=1025

by the fifteen hundreds, the very finest armor could deflect almost
all bodkin arrows - but very few could afford a complete set of the
very finest armor - and the battle of Agincourt occurred well before
the fifteen hundreds.

Presumably the armor improved (and became heavier and more expensive)
in response to the battle of Agincourt.

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          James A. Donald
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