Another New Scissor relief

[Aurelianus]

Hi Martin

No 1. Chain mail with padded protective layer beneath: Have you seen the tests a Spanish gentlemen did with a 50 lbs bow and arrows with armor piercing tips at 5-10m distance against a piece of chain mail backed by quilted cloth, cited here on RAT a few times? No penetration. If we admit a Secutor to have worn chain mail (or scale for that matter), I cannot image him not to wear some thick, quilted material beneath it (otherwise chain mail would be no protection indeed) and then the odds should have been more even again.

Please give me the link to the post of the chainmail-test!

I'm very surprised that this should be possible! I'm interested how thick the padding is.

I think the padding should be too thick so that the Scissor wouldn't be movable enough anymore!!! He couldn't bend anymore as well!
So he wouldn't be able to fight at all!!!

As for that I can attest for the opposite. I've seen quite a few such fights over the last 3-4 years and there were many sucessful parries of the trident with the sickle-hand, and quite a few those were locking the trident effectively too in the process and bringing the retiarius to a distinct disadvantage.

Don't forget: What you have seen are exhibition fights. This is more show than everything else. I know three groups which have a Scissor! Two of them are absolutely show groups (and by the way: in one case absolute not and in the other case not very authentic)!!!

I would be interested what the Junkelmann-Scissor would say!

I know one of Junkelmanns Secutors. He is of the same mind like me about the Scissor. Next time when I will see him I will ask after the conact to the Junkelmann Scissor.