If you were to pound out the breasts from Leona's plating, I'd be really disappointed that she can't be curvy in battle. In fact, if it were like that, I'd find it boring. And Riot hates boring, right?
The armor nuts take it too seriously. Keep the metal mounds.
Athenes Lulu6 votesThe problem is, since boobplate armor is replacing all those non-boobplate armor... it's getting old.
Ladies can still look feminine without having to wear boobplate armor. Just look at old Kayle splash: http://img1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20141014010651/leagueoflegends/images/d/d1/Kayle_OriginalSkin_old2.jpg You can see a little "bump" at her breast area, but they don't fit the contour of the boobs at the middle.
But look, she has an actual waist, and even the armor itself already tell us that it's female. I mean, her armor looks feminine, yet stylish and practical.
It's okay to have boobplate armor here and there. But don't make EVERY single armored lady wearing boobplates, that's just as bland.
Demonsolder211 voteswhen i first played kyle i thought she was a guy. Only after reading her lore did i discover that she was well a she
Sharjo2 votesYou're not the only one, many still have no idea.
Athenes Lulu2 votesI'm pretty sure "Kayle" sounds feminine...
It's ok, I thought it was a man too. Then I looked at her again, then this "Samus effect" came up. Me: "Is she the Samus Aran of League? Dat fully (practically) armored lady warrior, look!"
The waist and the hips. BIG clue, I say.
redniwediS5 votesI'm what you would call a "boob plate hater" but not because it's impractical, it's just plain ugly. It's like wearing metal spandex. All I'd want is some nice looking armor that looks like armor.
Angry Monster1 votesum you do not know what realism is then. Their has to be room for female breasts in the armor. this means the indentations (what you call boob plate.)
It would be very uncomfortable to have flesh smashed into your body like a guys armor would. Armor is meant to be tight and against your body after all.
How you like if someone smashed your nuts and penis into your crotch and kept there squeezed their for hours on end? Same principle for boob plate.
redniwediS3 votesWhat on earth are you talking about? All I said is I don't like metal spandex...
If you want to get technical you are correct in saying females would have different armor, but you are wrong in saying how. You can have tight fitting without it being a body mold, and you can have tight fitting without points that would focus the force of a blade into the armor wearer like every set of boob plate armor ever has had. The inside of the armor would be different to that of a male fighter, but the outside should not be.
Boob plate is simply not realistic in any way, but again that's not what my post was about. I simply said it's ugly.
Criomhthann4 votesum you do not know what realism is then. Their has to be room for female breasts in the armor. this means the indentations (what you call boob plate.)
No, stop.
Tits are not made of rocks. They are 90% fat, totally malleable and under armor would be strapped down to the chest.
Armor is meant to be tight and against your body after all.
Armor is not designed to be tight up against your body. It's designed so that several layers of looser material can be underneath to serve as padding. The biggest defeater of plate armor isn't penetration, it's Kinetic energy. Same reason your car is designed to crumple up in the event of a crash, same reason why modern body armor makers are trying to design armor that isn't strapped to the body but can still effectively stop rounds.
I = delta P = mVf- mVi
F= I/delta t
Literally Physics 111.
Angry Monster1 votesApparently you have never touch a girls breasts. Malleable yes, but they can still be hurt.Try doing what you are talking about with a girl with C or larger and ask does this feel comfortable/ good. Adding indentations in females armor actually makes sense for top heavy females.
Your Kevlar vest is designed to stop something completely different than medial armor. To think a Kevlar vest is even close to medieval armor is a joke. Kevlar uses section material to stop a small pierce attack that has a small mass. Bullets are danagerous cause of kinetic energy, swords not so much though kinetic is still used. Plate armor was designed for to keep you out of surgery, since that was not a well versed art.
Criomhthann4 votesMalleable yes, but they can still be hurt.
No one said otherwise, the fact remains that tits are not these bits of stone that certain posters are trying to pretend they are.
Try doing what you are talking about with a girl with C or larger and ask does this feel comfortable/ good.
You mean putting them in what effectively amounts to a sports bra?
Literally the only time where a slight indentation would be required is if we are talking about Hitomi Tanaka levels of tits (assuming absolutely no sag). It wouldn't be a actual tits like you and others are suggesting it would, it would be one slight budge spanning the width of the cuirass at the upper mid section of the cuirass at most. It wouldn't outline the breasts and it wouldn't contain a cleavage design. The breasts wouldn't even fill it.
Your Kevlar vest is designed to stop something completely different than medial armor.
No one said they were equivalent.
To think a Kevlar vest is even close to medieval armor is a joke.To think a Kevlar vest is even close to medieval armor is a joke.
Holy shit. No one said that they were equivalent. Both still faced similar challenges because the laws of physics don't fucking change. Solid, ridged pieces are terrible for internally distributing KE. Hence why crumbling cars, modern body armor and Impulses were brought up to begin with.
Kevlar uses section material to stop a small pierce attack that has a small mass.
And high velocities. This is incredibly over simplified but:
A DM11 is 4.1 grams at what? 935 meters per second?
4.1g(1kg / 1000g) = 0.0041 kg
KE = (1/2)mV^2
(1/2)(0.0041 kg)(935m/s)^2 = 1792.2 N being applied to an area of 25.51 mm^2.
For reference, the area of a penny is around 285.02 mm^2.
Bullets are danagerous cause of kinetic energy, swords not so much though kinetic is still used.
ANYTHING with mass and velocity has kinetic energy. Literally every mobile mass.
Swords can apply quite a bit of KE, but it's not effective for defeating armor. The force would be applied over a wide area. Thrusting would be more effective, but you would still be hoping for two conditions:
1: The target isn't moving. 2: You get a straight on hit.
Even then, you wouldn't skewer the target, especially not if they were wearing well made armor.
This is all moot because no one who didn't have a death wish would try to directly compromise armor via thrust and cut. You would be half-swording, and either looking for a clean Murder Stroke, or looking to get the opponent off balance in a position where you could force the point into a relatively unprotected area (arm pits, neck, eyes, etc).
This is why swords were not the preferred weapon against armor. In a one on one fight, you would be better off in every way with anything designed to kill through clubbing.
This, incidentally is why armor was not meant to be strapped to the wearer. Aside from the fact that the rough edges of the armor would hurt the wearer, getting hit would be a death sentence. To reduce the likely hood of death, you have to increase the time until the object hitting you reaches a velocity of 0. This is why cars are designed to crumble and one of the reasons why padding is so damned important to armor.
This is the reason modern body armor was brought up. It can stop a bullet, but it's not good for either directing forces away from the wearer or distributing forces amongst itself.
Criomhthann4 votesubiquitous not bland
Your pants do not go on your head.
Angry Monster1 votesFor female warriors space for breasts would be important for comfort when fighting. If you made this space and then thickened the metal to be flat again it would add to much weight. So the armor should of curves/pop outs to reflect this.
