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A gorget is a solid piece of armor worn to protect the throat, and it did not appear until the later 14th century. 

This piece of armor gets its name from the French word for “throat”, “gorge”. 

A byrnie is a shirt of maille armor smaller than a hauberk, usually without long sleeves or thigh protection. 

Well usually when you say “plated” it’s before stuff like maille. Plate and mail is a type of armor where a mail shirt will be interrupted in parts with small metal plates, reinforcing it in key areas.

This is a Moro brass plate and mail piece of chest armor, made of brass and like… horn I think. You can go all steel, most people did, I just picked this one because it illustrate the point well.A full plate harness by compareson will offer more protection, as a solid plate of metal will always be more resistant than maille alone. Flexibility will never be a huge defining factor as always because good armor should be flexible, whatever it’s made of, but the one true advantage of plated mail is its ease of manufacture, in that it uses small relatively simple plates that can be made by several smiths without the need to be fitted to specific individual.It is otherwise a purely geographical thing, I’m sure it breathes better too which may explain its prevalence in Africa and Asia.

For comparison, below is an example of “plate armor”, many large individual plates made to fit together as a single suit. 

A coif is a hood-like piece of maille armor worn to protect the head and shoulders either by itself or underneath a helmet. 

A bevor is a solid piece of armor very similar to a gorget, but with added protection for the chin and mouth. 

Bevors were most frequently used in conjunction with sallets and other helmet designs which did not come with built-in chin protection. 

An animated/possessed suit of plate armor would be more formidable an opponent than I think the creators of most fantasy RPGs/books/movies/games realize. It doesn’t breathe, bleed, or feel pain, and those are three things you can normally count on to exploit as weaknesses when you go to fight a person. I would also say it doesn’t get tired, but that may not be the case depending on the rules of the setting. Whatever magic is powering may run dry if the suit overexerts itself.

For the sake of this concept actually being interesting, I’m going to say that just blowing the whole thing up with magic is not an option. That is rarely an interesting option. I’m also assuming there’s no magical off-switch. You have to do this the hard way.

I’m also going to assume that this suit of armor is at least about as smart as a person wearing it would be, and knows how to use a variety of weapons. 

What I’ve just created is a very, very dangerous threat, though not one completely without weakness. 

Ordinarily when you fight a man in plate armor, you want to put a blade through his viewport or under his armpits, or just hit him so hard on the head that you concuss him even through the helmet, and there’s a lot of ways to do this, but since there’s not actually a man in the armor you can stab or concuss, that limits our options. You’re not fighting a vulnerable man inside an invulnerable suit of armor, you’re fighting an invulnerable suit of armor with no soft target inside. And I do mean invulnerable. You’re simply not going to destroy the plate armor by regular, straightforward means, especially not while the armor is fighting you. You could bludgeon it with a hammer all day until you’re too exhausted to fight and the worst the possessed armor would get would be a few dents and scratches, hardly enough damage to render it unable to fight. 

There’s a number of ways you could go about this, and you’re on the right track with your suggestion. This is usually left out in video games and other fantasy art, but plate armor is held on to the body–or, more accurately, the wearer’s gambeson or maille–with various buckles and ties. 

These are usually made of leather or some other material that’s easily cut with a sharp blade, and cutting these could make the armor fall apart piece by piece, but doing so would be extremely difficult, and not a strategy I would recommend against a living opponent inside a non-possessed suit of armor if there was any other option. Often, these buckles and ties are on the inside of the armor, or otherwise placed in such a way that they’re covered by other overlapping pieces of the suit, or just plain hard to get to, especially while the suit of armor is actively trying to kill you. You could try to hit them with a bladed weapon from a distance, but they’re small and the possessed armor would be moving around and blocking with its weapon, so you’d have to get really lucky to slice enough of these from range to make a difference. 

There’s a smarter way to go about this, though, and it relies on the one major disadvantage the possessed suit has compared to a regular guy in a regular suit: You weight more than it does, especially if you’re wearing armor too(and I wouldn’t actually recommend this tactic if you weren’t wearing at least some steel armor because you’re almost guaranteed to take a hit while doing this.)

A full suit of gothic plate armor probably weighs about 50 pounds(23 kg), and you probably weigh more than twice that even if you’ve got no armor at all. If you’re armored up enough to tank a hit with a bit of luck, just run the thing over. Even better if you have a shield that you can quickly drop to free up your hand for grappling. Just take your sharpest bladed knife and charge the armor, pick it up and slam it on the ground, then start cutting at the straps until the whole thing comes apart. Just be watch out in case the suit of armor has its own knife and knows how to wrestle. Being heavier isn’t all there is to grappling, but when you’re more than twice as heavy it gives you a huge advantage. 

If you have the opportunity, try shoving the armor into a pit it can’t climb out of, off the castle wall, or anywhere else where you don’t have to deal with it anymore. Just watch out, because the fall itself probably won’t damage the armor unless you’re dropping it into the Grand Canyon or something, and it may surprise you at a later date if you let your guard down. Even if you drop it into the ocean it may walk along the bottom until it gets ashore and finds you again, unless it rusts to death first, which may take a while.

If you have the materials, there’s a “safer” method too. Something like a molotov cocktail thrown directly at the armor may burn its straps up, causing it to fall apart, or even burn the gambeson underneath in such a way that the plates fall off, if you’re lucky, but you’d have to get lucky, or have a lot of molotovs on-hand. I say “safer” in quotation marks because if you’re not lucky then you’ve just created an unscathed suit of animated armor that is also on fire. 

One last method, which would work under only the most perfect circumstances, would be if you were able to lure the suit of armor into an extremely cold blizzard, it may get cold enough that then setting it on fire would cause the metal plates to rapidly expand and split open, destroying the armor. You’d need a very cold blizzard and a very hot fire that catches very quickly, though. Normal chilly weather wouldn’t work, so this may not be achievable in most climates without some kind of ice magic or something. I know I said no magic, but I think this could be chalked up to clever use of magic, rather than boringly flicking your wand once to make the problem go away.

How to dress a knight:

1. Gambeson

2. T-51b powered infantry armor

3. Breastplate

4. Vambraces

5. Rerebraces

6. Pauldrons

7. Gauntlets 

8. Bevor

9. Helmet

11. Cap

12. Helmet

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