Quote Originally Posted by No brains View Post
On "Heavy" armor:

If somebody falls from their horse and can't get up before they are killed, it's almost certain that they didn't have time to actually say what was wrong with them either. It seems more likely to me that anyone who falls off a horse in armor (or out) might just break a bone or take some other kind of injury that would make movement in any equipment horribly difficult. If someone breaks one of their vertebrae in a fall and struggles to get up, it might look like they are fighting against the weight of their armor.
I think it's certainly possible for someone to fall in thick mud, for example, and have trouble getting up - about the same as a modern infantryman with his gear. And as you say a fall from a horse can often be fatal in and of itself so no telling how injured someone might be.

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