Oh, you actually drew something..

so you remember which end of the pencil to use. :P

=^.,.^=

hahah, yeah. I actually drew something this time. :)

You just can't keep out of trouble can you , you great yarin?

Rocko chose his foes poorly. This time he pissed off the cat girl with huge 2 handed sword and magic scarf plus a gauntlet. with eyeball

is that chainmail under the lamellar Cuirass?

Yup. I always find Chain and ring mails fascinating for me.

I am not sure, did Chinese use chain and ringmail on a large scale, like the Europeans did?

No, but its not unheard of to see heavy infantry and cavalry to wear this in combination of other gears. However did we get our hands on this technology due to a simple reason... imports from the Persians and Indians.

Yeah, the Indians and the Persians used chainmail Armor and combined it later with plate elements, the Persians created the so called Jazeran (i am not sure if it is spelled like that in english) A chainmail armor covered with many small iron plates. Tho, I think for the major part, the Chinese Military equipment barely changed between 800 to 1500 BC. They used hardened leather, padded coats or metal lamellar Armors. But I might be wrong.

You pretty much nailed it. I will add some additional info here to complete the picture.

Heavy armors (chainmail/leather/lament/plate combo) are not rare. For example, Tang Dynasty has heavy infantry and cavalries combine with heavy weapons of all sorts..

Northern Song Dynasty (AD 960–1127) was terminated by Jin dynasty (1115–1234) founded by the same group (Manchu) who later founded Qing dynasty (1636–1912). Jin has a regiment of heavy cavalry probably similar to Persian Cataphracts.

Ming Dynasty had developed a new type of armor made of quilt, chain/ring mail and can be reinforced with additional plates. This apparently is specific for gunpowder warfare (shrapnels, gun powder burn).

Seriously, I love chatting with you about all these stuff. :)

Mhhh I see, did the use of gunpowder weapons increase during the Ming Dynasties reign? I know some of their smaller pieces of artillery. Like a small cannon with a exchangeable powder chamber for fast loading. Which was mostly used as Wall defense for Cities and Fortresses.

Yes. the Ming Dynasty had a huge leap when it comes to using gunpowder weapons and it was used more than just defense. The more portable weapons was also used in field battles too (against the Pirates. Li Zicheng's rebels and Manchurian army) but due to the financial and political unstablity, the Ming Empire military activity was usually confined within the walls and fortresses you spoke of

Yeah, it may not be historically accurate. But the Movie "Fall of Ming" pictures the massive financial problems of the Ming Army and the large scale refusal of provincial Aristocracy to support the Army with financial supports and Food Supplies for example.

And that refusing behavior made me wonder, was there no legal way for chinese military to confiscate property, food supplies and money back in the 17th Century? I mean, an Imperial Decree should have been enough to give a General enough authority.