Wednesday, May 08, 2013

A Woman's Armor

There's a whole lot of sexin' up women's armor throughout the gaming world. Chain mail bikinis get the most flak, and understandably so. Red Sonja as depicted in the Conan comics would probably not live long, unless she was insanely good and lucky or my theory that all that beauty and all those curves would distract a foe so much they couldn't strike her.


Yeah, I might be a little distracted. 

But here's a great little article pointing out the problems with plate mail shaped to the female form; place curves for the breasts apparently just isn't practical. TOR.

I like the picture they chose, though I don't think the Virgin Queen ever actually went to battle (I'm almost 100% certain of it), this movie "Elizabeth" was actually very good. Love this scene.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

It's okay, 'cause the enemy will aim for the shiny parts. (Search "female armor sucks" on youtube for CollegeHumor's great take on this.)

--Jeff

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