Plate armor was first used in Europe during ... But even if knights' encounters with firearms were uncommon, medieval armor ...

For reasons that don't need explaining, fists deal almost zero damage to full plate armor. I got cut to size ... his story of beating the RPG as "medieval Batman," completing darn near every ...

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