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Post by Deleted on Nov 16, 2016 18:45:21 GMT
Sorry, no link, but look up "Januarius" ( = San Gennaro of Benevento/Naples) in engl. Wikipedia. Will do! Thanks!
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Post by Adrian Jordan on Nov 16, 2016 19:46:16 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Nov 17, 2016 6:19:00 GMT
Thanks for the confirmation!
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Post by Deleted on Nov 18, 2016 7:38:37 GMT
Well, I will just say that if anyone has any ideas, keep throwing. I am continuing my research on the subject and will update. In the meantime, all ideas are welcome.
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Post by AndiTheBarvarian on Nov 19, 2016 23:12:26 GMT
Armor is always a tradeoff between: - available materials (leather is a bad armor, but much better than your skin and a t-shirt) - protection vs. agility (carry a tank) - different kinds of attacks (icepick - katana - mace - bullet) Modern synthetic/composite/futuristic materials should be the best compromise, but we are not Bruce Wayne. I imagine a situation like Brat Pitt in WWZ, wrap a journal around your forearm and tape it. A scale/lamellar armor of tupperware lids?
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Post by MOK on Nov 20, 2016 0:48:35 GMT
Armor is always a tradeoff between: - available materials (leather is a bad armor, but much better than your skin and a t-shirt) - protection vs. agility (carry a tank) - different kinds of attacks (icepick - katana - mace - bullet) Modern synthetic/composite/futuristic materials should be the best compromise, but we are not Bruce Wayne. I imagine a situation like Brat Pitt in WWZ, wrap a journal around your forearm and tape it. A scale/lamellar armor of tupperware lids? Tire treads. The best readily available post-apocalyptic armor material I can think of.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 20, 2016 6:24:23 GMT
Armor is always a tradeoff between: - available materials (leather is a bad armor, but much better than your skin and a t-shirt) - protection vs. agility (carry a tank) - different kinds of attacks (icepick - katana - mace - bullet) Modern synthetic/composite/futuristic materials should be the best compromise, but we are not Bruce Wayne. I imagine a situation like Brat Pitt in WWZ, wrap a journal around your forearm and tape it. A scale/lamellar armor of tupperware lids? Considering on-the-go armor, I would actually prefer phonebooks taped together across my torso, with tire pieces for arms and legs and a car sheet for the back and helmet. With a car door as epic defense. That is for emergency armor however. What I am trying to do is put enough elbow (and brain) grease in before hand that I can avoid improvisation...hopefully.😄 Armor is always a tradeoff between: - available materials (leather is a bad armor, but much better than your skin and a t-shirt) - protection vs. agility (carry a tank) - different kinds of attacks (icepick - katana - mace - bullet) Modern synthetic/composite/futuristic materials should be the best compromise, but we are not Bruce Wayne. I imagine a situation like Brat Pitt in WWZ, wrap a journal around your forearm and tape it. A scale/lamellar armor of tupperware lids? Tire treads. The best readily available post-apocalyptic armor material I can think of. Use truck tires and you are a walking tank against the un-dead. Put some thought into it and you could roll into a ball of thick rubber and roll away from danger. Or stick some glass into the rubber for added effect and bad-ass points.
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Post by AndiTheBarvarian on Nov 20, 2016 8:17:34 GMT
New tv-series ideas: "The Walking Phonebooks" or "Game of Wheels".
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Post by Deleted on Nov 20, 2016 8:21:20 GMT
New tv-series ideas: "The Walking Phonebooks" or "Game of Wheels". Or 'Grey's Phonebook' or ' The Wheel-Files' 😂✌️️
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Post by AndiTheBarvarian on Nov 20, 2016 8:27:30 GMT
Tupperwikings!
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Post by Deleted on Nov 21, 2016 11:55:23 GMT
Another fruit of my research, get a load of DevTac! They make (e.g., Magnum .44) bullet proof helmets.
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Post by AndiTheBarvarian on Nov 21, 2016 12:14:20 GMT
Wow, with this stuff you can infiltrate the Cylons.
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Post by MOK on Nov 21, 2016 12:22:31 GMT
A car door would not be very epic protection, BTW. They're made of very thin sheet metal like the rest of the body and almost entirely hollow, to save on weight. There's a reason cops do not in reality take cover behind car doors like they do in some movies: car doors simply don't provide any meaningful cover, even from handguns (I mean, of course it's marginally better than nothing, but in reality you want the whole car and preferably the engine between you and incoming bullets). Against muscle powered weapons wearing a car door like a shield might work, though... for a little while, until it quickly gets all chewed up, beat out of shape and full of holes because it was never designed to take that kind of abuse. There are much more practical and more epic alternatives. Like a buckler made out of a stop sign!
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Post by bluetrain on Nov 21, 2016 12:29:58 GMT
Since you usually have a backpack of some sort when you go on long hikes in the woods, I've imagined that might make a halfway decent shield of sorts, though not of much use if firearms were involved. Likewise, old fencing manuals sometimes include as a tactic, using a cloak wrapped around your left arm, assuming you are right-handed. In a sword fight, that's a lot better than nothing, although it might preclude using a dagger in your other hand.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 21, 2016 12:39:49 GMT
A car door would not be very epic protection, BTW. They're made of very thin sheet metal like the rest of the body and almost entirely hollow, to save on weight. There's a reason cops do not in reality take cover behind car doors like they do in some movies: car doors simply don't provide any meaningful cover, even from handguns (I mean, of course it's marginally better than nothing, but in reality you want the whole car and preferably the engine between you and incoming bullets). Against muscle powered weapons wearing a car door like a shield might work, though... for a little while, until it quickly gets all chewed up, beat out of shape and full of holes because it was never designed to take that kind of abuse. There are much more practical and more epic alternatives. Like a buckler made out of a stop sign! Agreed. Might sound 'over' but I have been caught in a pass-by shooting once and was saved by the fact that my Maternal Grandfather liked his Antique Vespa so much. That thing was VERY solid and the bullets just hit the engine portion in the back part. I was little so it helped. That's why Hollywood pisses me off sometimes. Fantasy and fiction can't be blamed (who could hate The Matrix😜)but when they show 'reality' movies, makes me blood boil... Since you usually have a backpack of some sort when you go on long hikes in the woods, I've imagined that might make a halfway decent shield of sorts, though not of much use if firearms were involved. Likewise, old fencing manuals sometimes include as a tactic, using a cloak wrapped around your left arm, assuming you are right-handed. In a sword fight, that's a lot better than nothing, although it might preclude using a dagger in your other hand. We do something very similar in Muay Boran. If you are an elephant rider and are grounded, you take the cloth put in the animal and wrap in on one arm while using the pole weapon in ground combat. (Works for other classes and weapons too and is a very cool and simple self-defense move)
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Post by Deleted on Nov 21, 2016 12:40:14 GMT
*put on the animal*
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Post by pgandy on Nov 21, 2016 16:21:38 GMT
Since you usually have a backpack of some sort when you go on long hikes in the woods, I've imagined that might make a halfway decent shield of sorts, though not of much use if firearms were involved. Likewise, old fencing manuals sometimes include as a tactic, using a cloak wrapped around your left arm, assuming you are right-handed. In a sword fight, that's a lot better than nothing, although it might preclude using a dagger in your other hand. I hadn’t thought of that. I carry a backpack daily and there are times that when I am in a questionable area take it off my back and place on my front, a common practice in my country. This is not for body armour but for security of items in the backpack. In fact the baddies tried it once but with a twist. I was in San José when two women ran up to me from behind and saying that they saw a man take something from my backpack, which I was carrying on my back. I removed the pack and saw that one of the pockets was unzipped. They said that they could identify the man and in fact knew where he was. They were willing to lead me to him. Then they became insistent that I follow which I did not. For one, there was nothing in that pocket to began with. But I had no intentions of falling for that line. They were going to lead me to some isolated place where their boyfriends were waiting. Not only would I have lost my pack but everything else I was carrying.
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Post by bluetrain on Nov 21, 2016 16:42:16 GMT
Except when I'm actually out hiking in the woods, which I haven't done for a few weeks, I don't carry a pack. But you see it all the time. I keep wondering what people tote around with them.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 21, 2016 16:57:28 GMT
Except when I'm actually out hiking in the woods, which I haven't done for a few weeks, I don't carry a pack. But you see it all the time. I keep wondering what people tote around with them. I didn't even take it to hikes (training there and stuff). But when I go camping I take my Camel Mountain backpack and pack it full of food, knives, my home-made collapsible spear and stuff. Not to mention my Shotgun and AK-47 and Tokarovs and stuff for hunting in my car... Anyways, I once stopped a stab with a backpack full of stuffed animals (little cousin). Same time when I used a kitchen knife against a handgun wielding intruder in my house. It was ample defense...
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Post by pgandy on Nov 21, 2016 17:11:29 GMT
“We do something very similar in Muay Boran. If you are an elephant rider and are grounded, you take the cloth put in the animal and wrap in on one arm while using the pole weapon in ground combat. (Works for other classes and weapons too and is a very cool and simple self-defense move)”
It’s common to see machete fighters remove their shirts and wrap around their arm or hand.
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