| B: where found, refers to the modifier for ‘Bludgeoning’ type weapons.
Barding: armour made for a mount, commonly a horse. Bevor: a plate for face and neck protection on a helmet. Brim: a flange around the edge of the skull-piece of a helmet. Buffe: an open-fronted visor with vertical metal strips. It gave improved visibility. Cheek-guards: metal plating or mail designed to protect the cheeks. Sometimes removable or hinged. Codpiece: a triangular-shaped piece of material worn over the groin. Coif: a headpiece made like a balaclava, usually made of mail. Comb: a decorative crest or ridge of varying height mounted on a helmet, running from front to back or from side to side. Crest: see ‘Comb’ above. Cuisses: thigh-plates. Cuirass: a breastplate. Cuirassier: a cavalryman, especially one in the gunpowder era. DP: Damage Points. This refers to rules for armour damage found in the Complete Fighter’s Handbook. Fauld: a codpiece made of plate or mail. Gorget: a curved plate or plates of metal encircling and protecting the throat. Grandguard: a metal plate resembling a shield built into the arm of a suit of armour and extending across the chest and shoulder. Greaves: shin-plates. Hauberk: any garment resembling a jerkin or shirt. Lames: laminated plates designed to protect as well as plate, while still conferring good mobility. Mail: a form of armour made of interlocking rings of metal. P: where found, refers to the modifier for ‘Piercing’ type weapons. Pauldron: plate leg-armour that protected the calf. Rondel: a circular plate of metal designed to protect the straps on a wrapper. Peak: an attachment to a helmet, taking the form of a plate over the eyes like the peak of a baseball cap. S: where found, refers to the modifier for ‘Slashing’ type weapons. Skull-Piece: the rounded top of a helmet, designed to protect the upper half of the skull. Surcoat: a fabric garment worn over the top of armour, typically by European knights. It was sleeveless and hung down to the knees, and usually carried the wearer’s coat-of-arms, or the design of his order (Knights Hospitalers or Templars, for example). Tassets: leg-protection consisting of lames or plate worn over the thighs. Usually, it only protected the front. Tonlet: a flared, laminated plate skirt for extra leg protection. Wrapper: a metal plate designed to protect a buckle or join in armour, especially on the helmet. |