Talk:The Witcher 3 witcher gear/@comment-99.240.65.194-20181109143319/@comment-2601:206:8201:CDC0:9972:CF6F:C13A:63E6-20190905153926

Almost a year later, but, the various plates of metal and leather are strategically placed where warriors deflect or lead the blows that they must take or where they would be hurt most to get hit by. Remember those fatty gauntlets with the ridges that 'Elder-Witcher' wears? Those are basically to help him brute force slap sword blows out of the way, the thick enough to disperse the energy and studded to keep said blows from deflecting into his soft bits.

Armor in the Witcher series is fairly realistic except for the lack of neck protection, but lets not get into that.

Think about insects and reptiles, they have all evolved with overlapping hard-materials with flexible, but reliable, pieces under.