Brigandine

A coat of plates
''Scale armors are vulnerable to piercing attacks and upward blows. Despite a slight loss of flexibility, what if instead of having visible scales on top of each other we designed an armor where the scales are sewn indepently to a padded leather cloth and covered by another layer of fabric to hide them, making the whole more resistant to piercing thanks to the leather and the impossibility to slip the point of a weaping through gaps between scales?''

Potential Requirements

 * Currently unknown.