> Hide armor and leather armor ARE different. The difference is that hide armor is constructed of very thick skin or several layers of leather.
Really. Hide armor is a myth. It's just a synonym for leather or armor made of skin of animals. Games made it popular probably to give an extra form of leather armor. But any kind of leather armor was simply called leather armor. Some leather armors were double and triple layered, some were padded, some were riveted. All were called leather armor.
> Mail shirt? I'm assuming you mean a form of chainmail on that one.
Nope. Mail Shirt. Smaller than an hauberk that protected just the torso and upper arms, instead of the hauberk's protection that included lower arms and legs down to the knee.
> For armors, it's hard to list splint without listing banded. They're roughly the same, except banded works better. Also, historians still debade whether splint ever even existed, as there is no real history behid it, and no proper depictions of any warriors or soldiers ever using it.
Yup. Removed. Splint was a piece of armor used in the arms during the 15th and 16th centuries.
And thanks for the banded! Forgot that one. Added. It was mostly used in China, not in Europe. But it was a very good armor.
