All Around Best Faction Armor in Game of Thrones- Who Has the Best Armor?
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- This Game of Thrones TV Tuesday video contains a list of the best faction armors for the hit HBO series, Game of Thrones. This list is in no particular order, and does not contain every suit of armor from the show, just the ones that are standard wear for all the best factions an or armies from the show. It is mostly about appearance, but i also touch on realism and practicality. So, sit back and enjoy this edition of TV Tuesdays, and please excuse the bad editing. I was a touch under the weather while making this one.
You forgot to mention chain mail when going over the northern armor. The Northern army also wears chainmail under their armor, which provides excellent slicing protection.
Must have slipped my mind.
Except in the show
Tho the northern army is a mix of peoples
Especially House Mormant and House Manderly they wear plate armor. Compared to the leather gambo and chain mail.
plot armor upgraded with bad writing best them all
What are you whinging about.
@@13_faces casual drunk fans who enjoy but don't understand this show
I mean, plot armor is always the strongest armor.
@@Dare_To_Game Aye. 'Tis be worn by characters who still have a meaning that HBO haven't decided yet to the slightest.
I like the Iron Born armor best. I just really like the appearance. And, like you said, its not like its designed for open combat, so it makes perfect sense.
Yeah, i think it is a very cool looking armor, and for what it is intended it is very functional. If i were to change something about it, i would add an anglo saxon style bascinet with noseguard.
@@Dare_To_Game an "Anglo Saxon Bascinet" !?😂😂 You have to be kidding😂😂
@@albrechtvonhummelsberg9089 ?
For me I'd have to say the Northmen's armour is my favourite but if I could change anything about it I'd give them chain mail and a full sallet with a bevor
agreed, if everyone in the north had a good sturdy set of mail hauberk and chausses as well as everyone wearning a good helmet, they would be far more legit.
Captain_Alistair the northern troops do west chain mail under their armor. You see it on their bannermen. Watch the scene when Ned beheads the Night’s Watch deserter. One of the soldiers holding the deserter down, you see his chain mail sticking out from under his sleeve. The Bolton’s also wore chain mail. Their uniforms were just similar to the starks with the exception of the helmets. However, a full sallet with a bevor would make them look even more legit.
@@jmc28J17 That's only the Men at arms, not regular soldiers that make up most of the army..
The sallet with bevor is my least favorite style. I prefer the bascinet-style with hound-skull visor and mail aventail. And that’s how I envisioned the helms from the books. The helms in the show are garbage. But the rest of the armor looks very good.
same
the Baratheon amour is the best wasn’t mentioned
In defence of the lannister helmet, it was probably inspired by a visored kettle helmet, wich without any neck protection is good enough for a footsoldier. But I do agree that mounted knights should wear some sort of bevor.
I love that most of them don't even wear helmets.
I dislike that part.
Main Character didn't need Helmet
That’s just film making, it’s not practical from a realism standpoint. But they don’t cover an actor’s face with helmets or hats.
I don't like that fact very much. I know you wanna show your actors' faces, but hell, even Narnia had the balls to give the main hero (main fighting hero, anyway) a full visor helmet. Granted, it wasn't on for very long, but at least they thought of it, which is more than what I can say for most fantasy films/TV
@@AesirUnlimited Dredd
Love the lannister officer armor personally. Looks amazing and is fairly practical.
I almost kinda hope John gets that armor from the thumbnail
Same, i think it looks awesome.
*Jon
It’s from Dracula untold
@@jimmytodd5225 underrated moive
I loved the tyrell armor and hated that we only got to see it the one time, I was forever looking for it for the rest of the show
His armor is gorgeous, Renly’s was pretty sick too imo.
The show really fumbled with their characters big time tho, it was honestly a bit homophobic how they handled them lol.
Another grave flaw with the kingsguard armour is the lack of gauntlets.
big time.
That’s game of thrones in general but yeah I agree
What would your opinions be on the Tully armor?
I know that functiobally speaking, they're not that great, but aesthetically they're one of my favourites, *and it's a real shame we never see any Tully knight in action.*
while it does look kind of cool, i can't recommend it because of how ridiculous it is functionally. It is soft leather scale.....it would make really bad armor. It would have been better to see the black fish in action though.
@@Dare_To_Game *Soft* leather scale? Wait-WHAT?! O__O
I thought for sure those scales were made of metal!
@@MrDibara steel or iron scales woulda been much better for them
@@lolibudang5085 RIGHT?!
@@Dare_To_Game They do wear chain mail underneath though. To me, it looks like the Tully armour consists of a lair of padding, then a hauberk of chain mail that covers the body, hangs over the legs and reaches all the way down the arms and then the thick leather scale on top that can absorb blows onto the torso. Historically speaking, chain mail offered good protection, which is why I think the Tully armour doesn't do as terrible a job at protecting it's wearer.
Though the thick layers of padding, especially with these shoulderpieces they wear may restrict mobility somewhat. And I don't think we see any helmets or headgears in the show, other than coiffs. Even on background characters.
So that is where Tully armour loses out.
But overall, I like the design. It's pretty sensible, for a sensible and practical house, while also getting their theme across at a price low enough that it can be easily employed on the Tully army.
The fact that they use scale mail while their sigil is a fish just makes me irrationally happy.
And I do agree, we should have seen the Blackfish in action. The Blackfish's actor, Clive Russel, was roughly as tall as the Hound's actor, Rory McCann, so it would have been quite a sight.
They did him dirty in the show.
The Stark set is the best in my opinion cause it actually looks like an effective realistic armor that can be mass produced for foot soldiers
Would have liked there to be more wooden round shields in the North. Great video by the way!
You can also see the Starks wearing triple-layer armour (gambeson, mail, brigandine).
Speaking of the Lannister helmets: the area they cover is pretty much the same as a sallet with a visor. I never really understood why, but they were very popular in real-life medieval Europe.
Leaving the lower half of the head free allows for better breathing, speaking and heat loss, but IRL, they usually wore a gorget with a bevoir.
PS: the barbute-style helmets (those with a T- or Y-shaped cutout) are also to allow for better breathing, but also vision. In shows, they are usually badly represented, as they leave too much of the face unprotected (GoT and e.g. Archilles).
The Lannister easily sport the most feasible and well-suited armor in the series. If the show were realistic, these dudes would almost be invulnerable, minus the obviously helmet flaws.
Sry, but I just gotta disagree. The Stark armor is a poorly designed attempt at a coat of plates/brigantine. There shouldn’t be any of those gaps between plates - the plates overlap. This renders the armor very vulnerable to any sort of piercing attack, as the plates would direct them towards the gaps. The same goes for Mormonts armor. Ironically, Allisers armor is the most functional from all these designs.
For the Greyjoys, how does putting a layer of leather help with shock absorption? It does the opposite, it will catch blades and points, instead of deflecting them like plate does.
How do I get Henry to wear Tyrell armor?
Wait for Mods. Thats all any of us can do. I'm sure 7 kingdoms will please us all.
Pretty sure Seven Kingdoms gave up on KCD, but who can say for sure? Maybe if the modding tools are extensive enough, and there's enough interest, they might change their mind.
I kind of like the Lannister's armor, but not their helmets. However, I do have a linking to Stannis' armor though and the Unsullied leather helmet.
I like Stannis' armor, but not his men.
@@Dare_To_Game I feel as if though HBO didn't have that much of a budget to give splitting factions some unique features of armor sets. Maybe instead of taking the design of the Gold cloaks, maybe different helmets, maybe some armor plates, or anything that would represent Stannis' army.
I agree, i think they should have tried a bit harder to differentiate the armor types there.
@@Dare_To_Game You mean aside from the Knights of the Vale? Well there are some reasons why most of the foot soldiers have the same armors and why there are some with different armors suited as knights. I mean...not everyone in the Vale has exactly different armor. It depends on the person and their status.
personally I love that each group has different armour because it shows that the creators took the time to look at what type of environment their in, financial situation of the faction, and in some cases fighting style the faction uses when designing the armour
Gambeson's were one of the most common types of armors used by real medieval soldiers and it is also a fairly good in its protection, Gambeson's are pretty good at protecting you from most types of weapon's, even swords since in real battlefield conditions and for extended use overtime a sword can lose its edge and sharpness pretty quickly and when used against a Gambeson it won't be that effective so I can say that the Night's Watch are fairly well protected and when compared to the Free Folk
To be fair though the show armor was meant to look cool and be appealing to the average viewer . the armor as described and shown in the books makes a little more sense and is sometimes very different to that of its shows counterparts. The NW armor for example in the books sometimes has chainmail. Love your content though dude keep at it . But you should totally do an analysis of the armor as portrayed in the books, you can find plenty of illustrations online .
I love the Lannister helmets, they look like lions.
2:43 Unpopular opinion, but I think characters look cooler WITH the helmets on. Can you imagine Iron Man being unmasked throughout the entirety of his fight scenes?
Lannister Armor is my favorite my only issue is no greaves/cuisse but that’s for all the houses I’m sure for the show it would be time consuming with all the movement but wtf…
Interesting, I consider the armor choices with Stannis the best. Yes, the troops you showed don't have that great-looking armor, however in Blackwater you can see different armors. These were from men who were originally under Renly, but switched sides. I just like this minor detail, because of course regular men at arms wouldn't be completelly rearmed when they came under Stannis. Other than that, that different set is also pretty good looking, and as far as I know the only set which used iron hat helmet, which is a neat choice for men at arms.
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I love the armor, but hate the helmets from the show. I expected more of the bascinet-style helmets with hinged visors, which are what I envisioned from the books. And great helms, either the flat top or rounded top versions.
Tywin’s armor is great... probably my favorite in the show, if not for that stupid helmet.
From the books, Victarion Greyjoy has a great set, with a helm fashioned like a kraken. And Jorah Mormont’s hodgepodge armor described at the end of Dance with Dragons sounds pretty awesome too.
Excellent list and video. I’m a huge fan of the Knights of the Vale (mostly because of their appearance at the Battle of the Bastards), but it makes sense as to why you wouldn’t include them.
I don’t know when you made this video, but we got a pretty decent look at the Golden Company’s armor in the preview for S8E5. Either way, great video as always!
Yeah, this was before that, but depending what we see t=in the next few episodes, it may get added to the list. The golden company looks legit.
I love Vlad's armour lol It's a shame we didn't get that for the Targaryens 🙂
I hate how exposed kingsguards shoulder are
1:15 "As such armor genuinely was in real life" I have yet to find any sort of "leather" and "wood" armor throughout western Europe history, granted there are some finds of "leather armor" found in Japan and some "wooden armor" as well, but these are quite rare, There was no such thing in Western Europe. I believe in eastern japan and china, they MAY have used "these materials" but, in Europe for training, you'd most likely wear some sort of padded coat, or a GAMBESON. again, great video though talking about the pros and cons about the GoT armors but, yea.. Wood and Leather armor for training... ehh lol
Love the Greyjoy armor. Wish I had one, even if my wardrobe may smell like fish oil because of it
The fact the Dorthraki annihilated the Lannisters in that battle so easily when they were wearing plate armor is completely ridiculous. The Dorthraki had zero armor. If the battle of realistic it would have gone a totally different way.
I always liked the vale’s armour the best
I think they should go back and GCI little round metal disks over the exposed armpits of the all characters.
Just for me.
Tully armor is pretty cool, but I like Lannister gear the best.
2nd Gen Baratheon Kingsguard (narrower helmet) armor is the best.
Would be better with a visor.
The baratheons(Stannis troop) and Greyjoys looked ibtresting
All the helmets are terrible. I forgive the main characters generally not wearing them though. Functional helmets while speaking would be more wooden than Jon Snow's acting. I think the Reach armor also looks like they're just wearing cloth shirts. I think the Westerlands armor looks the best overall. I'm sure a custom suit with more plate could be done. Maybe even melt down a few more captured Valaryian steel swords for black plate, just to show off. A functional helm should be doable too, in appropriately decorative themed colors of course.
No wildlings?! Outrageous. I Love the Thenn armour
The Lannister Armor should of had some type of cloth or hair coming off the back and get rid of those dumbass swinging doors. It should of had something to make it look like a Lion's mane. The Targaryen helmet we see Daemon wear in House of The Dragon have red feathers on top. It's really cool and no other houses have this in GoT.
The Unsullied Armor is a joke. It's just a bunch of Wannabe Bikers. The Shields are too small to be useful in the absence of Leg Armor. The lack of any real "formed" Leather Plates means they are protected by, essentially, nothing. Had the Armor had a more Hoplite feel to it, it might have been believable.
As it stands, in a battle, regardless of the opponent, the Unsullied would be outclassed.
Man be sounding like Kermit the god damn frog
you should redo this with the HotD armour, imo the city watch armour, aswell as the kingsguard armour is much better than the game of thrones versions.
its funny that you think royal armor is anything more than ornamental.
In the books, euron has Valyrian steel armour
Is Jon snow wearing the “Son of the Dragon” armor from Dracula untold- in the thumbnail?
I think Mace Tyrell and Tywin Lannister have the best armour
should re do add house of the dragon armies
IRL, some opted for less armor, even on the battlefield. The very basic armor would be half-armor, which covers the torso and the head. Conquistadors were big fans of this style. It often indicates that they were more worried about getting shot at than getting cut in combat. A 3/4 armor also covers the arms and upper legs. People rarely aim for the lower legs in combat and you can always lift them. The shins and calves are mostly at risk, when you're on horseback, or try to finish someone, who is already downed, or perhaps when someone uses a spear and switches between high and low attacks. Alternatively, if you are on a staircase, your legs become vulnerable as well. Ancient Greeks covered the shins because besides the head and the weapon arm, they were the only thing that actually protruded from behind their big roundshields. Adding bracers and greaves often results in limited mobility and adds weight to the ends of your limbs, which will make you slower and fatigue faster. This is worse than adding weight to your shoulders and hips. On the bright side, it will make empty hand attacks considerably more powerful. More importantly, protecting the forearms is a good idea, as they are quite vulnerable in swordfights and people block instinctively with their forearms... From personal experience, are the upper arms much less at risk than the forearms, or the torso (including the shoulders). Even the upper legs are typically more at risk. They are a bigger target, and move slower and unlike your arms, you don't block attacks with your shins, thus they are quite vulnerable.
PS: even a 1/2 armor makes punching pretty pointless, but makes you more vulnerable to wrestling, as your center of mass goes up.
Regarding if a soldier would opt for a lighter or heavier armor, it really depends on the time period. Warring sides would outcompete each other, changing the paradigm of war in every major developments.
There were times where knights with full chain armors were the epitome of quality. This is until countermeasures were made against it such as more use of crossbows. Resulting in more use of the bulkier plate armors, which were pretty much viewed as nearly invincible, especially against piercing armaments, until the infantry revolution and more use of gunpowder weaponry.
As gunpowder weaponry became much more used, heavy use of armor became too inefficient, along with improved metallurgy, resulting in the use of cuirass type armors like that of Conquistadors.
@@mr.beanladen1469 Even at the height of chainmail, not everyone who could afford chainmail trousers and long-armed shirts did wear it. Mail coats and shirts were still common. After all, soldiers hate excess weight, especially when they're out of combat marching, or doing other work... The same goes for open-faced helmets when more protective ones were available...
Also, you can get away with less mail coverage, when you're wearing a big shield...
@@edi9892 yep true. It also depends who the person is. Richer people such as knights would usually prefer heavier armor because they do not need to march, cos they can afford horses, unlike common soldiers who need to endure marching on foot for days.
A small note, Gambeson actually provides reasonable stabbing protection. It is not as good as... well just about anything a little harder and denser, even horn or wood or boiled leather, at impact weapons.... maces, morning stars, war hammers etc... or weapons which use velocity to imitate force... a little energy one end, translating to a lot at the naughty end... glaives, halberds, poleaxes etc....but a well made Gambeson, at least one designed to be exposed armour, is not so bad at stabbing.
Remember, if you are wearing Gambeson as padding.... chances are, it is under mail, scale or plates of some kind, be it lamellar, laminar, coat of plates, full harness or something like brigandine. So, such clothing... Akaton, or Jack as it was known, may be anything from eight to twelve layers.... but Gambeson proper... that same type of armour made as amour designed to be primarily the armour exposed to the enemy, would generally be MUCH thicker. Gambeson 25 to 30 layers thick was not unheard of. With having a tight, thick weave, each layer's grain running across the previous one, stitched down tight only each other, for that many layers.. well not only was it just about cut, slash and slice proof... but incredibly hard to pierce with light weapons, such as swords, javelins, short spears and light arrows shot from light bows.
At those kinds of layer levels, it could offer some reasonable dissipation even against the aforementioned pole or force weapons, though you'd probably still want some kind of additional doubling beneath it, and of course, it was so hot and sweaty in a Gambeson that often, such was not worn, soldiers simply wearing a light shift underneath instead.
A lot of people think Gambeson is weal to stabs, but a well made piece, using well woven material, woven from well made linen thread, once assemble in the manner one used, cross graining the weaves, for good 18 or 20 layers, or more, they really did become almost as stab proof as they were cut proof.
No mention of the Tully armor worn by the Blackfish, Hoster, and Edmure? What a shame!
Very informative
Glad you think so.
@@Dare_To_Game keep up the good content, I've been subbed for awhile now
What about the Golden Company?
*These armours are actually indian armours supplied from an indian company. They're indian designs which were worn in ancient India.*
I’d be curious to hear your thoughts on house of the dragon, season 2 is airing and there is some really great designs
I have not watched any of season 2 yet, but i really liked the armor in season one a lot more than most of game of thrones.
tyrells would win 9 times out of 10 in a fight vs any of those others
Agreed. Hardcore.
Urski Naattori they tyrells are knights of summer the most elite are the north, dornish and the Arryns
@@MM-xm5vx I know it's been over a year but it's been stated that the Lannister army is one of the most if not the most trained one. They mooped the floor with the tyrells
Its so hard to tell who is who in the fighting.
I actually like kingsguard and Lannister helmets, they aren’t boring like stark helmets
bruh why is jon snow wearing the dracula untold armor in the thumbnail?? 🤣
I won pretty obvious oversight you didn't even touch on the Knights of the veil which showed multiple times you could see it in their defense of the bloody gate the battle of the bastards as well as during tyrion's trial by combat in season 1 has worn by servatis
What do you think about Bolton armor and helmet?
i don't have much of an opinion about it accuracy wise, but i think it looks pretty dumb.
Iron born + Tully + Arryn and Baratheon have the best looking armour (not in order)
I think the Tully armor looks alright, but protection wise it isn't great.
@@Dare_To_Game well what do you think about baratheon, excluding stannis' men because he completely changed the armour. They wear a mustard padded gambeson with large shoulder pauldrons and a gorget. They also wear a Norman style helmet with chain mail for neck protection and golden antlers above the noseguard. Ive seen them also with capes and shields.
If it looks like the Baratheon armor from the Stormlands, then yes, i do like that quite a bit.
@@Dare_To_Game agreed
I don’t now, what all this medieval shows have with this Stannis Army Helmets. There are in Game of Thrones, The Witcher, Vikings and I hate them. They look so damn stupid and aren’t that much usefully in medieval times settings.
Honestly, I'm not a fan of the Unsullied armor. While the Lannister armor looked perhaps a little too fantasy, this comes across as "convenient for cosplay/Renaissance festival".
The neck guard thing is pronounced “gorjet” just a respectful fyi 🙂
Almost all of the armor in the show is junk. The Hound's, the Mountain's and Brienne's are the only halfway decent suits that come to mind.
Beyond that it is almost all junk.
The reason fantasy armor usually looks cooler than historical armor is because it doesn't have to actually work.
The northern Stark "Coat of plates" falls victim to the same error that you see of the "Braveheart" armor which is completely ahistorical. Why is it ahistorical junk? Because the plates don't overlap. A spear or other weapon thrust into it would merely skip off of one of the plates it might encounter and penetrate the space in between. It's junk armor.
No love for the Burgonet dude
What about the Dornish gambeson armor?
I think they actually use Brigandine.
@@Dare_To_Game Still should've included it though.
Dorne armour?
What about Tully chain mail?
Its alright, but not a favorite of mine.
DTG Productions I think the weakest armor is the Martell armor, in the show when Bronn and Jamie are attacked by 4 men on dornish stallions their armour could have never withstood any blow
I love city watch armor
Mormont armor where??
review dothraki armor
I think gold clocks have the best looking armour
Are you sure you aren't thinking about the white cloaks(kings guard)?
Sorry wrong thing I like city watch
nevermind, you were right then, the City Watch are the goldcloaks, i was just surprised that anyone actually liked their armor. What about it do you like?
I like the gold chain mail covering their faces and how they patrol the city enforcing the law
I guess thats reason enough, personal preferences are just that. PS, their armor is described way cooler in the books.,
All looks terrible & stupid imo. Basically typical Hollywood shenanigans.
Stannis's armour
Stannis' armor is pretty sweet.
remove random crit
lanniter armor
Unsullied is best
Targaryen Armor tho
Ser Vardis armor