A Side Sword With A Blackened Hilt Of The Type Associated With The Munich Town Guard, Munich, Germany,

A Side Sword with a blackened hilt of the type associated with the Munich town guard, Munich, Germany, ca. early 17th century, housed at the Bayerisches Armeemuseum.

I'm also not sure about the "female knights would have worn corsets over maille" thing, if only because by the time corsets fully came into fashion - mid-to-late 16th century - , pretty much no one wore maille anymore, except for the Russians and the Ottomans - and even then, it was usually reinforced with plates.

Illustrations of female knights (usually mythological figures like Penthesilea below) in medieval manuscripts do sometimes show them wearing a kind of form-fitting cuirass almost resembling the later anima cuirass, but these are probably artistic license.

A hard lesson I only had to learn once.

It’s been six years and I can still remember the blisters on my hips. lol

A Long Knife. Late XVth/early XVIth century.

Spring steel blade of Elmslie type 5, mild steel cross with Nagel of Elmslie type N5, and a type CC2 pommel. Cherry wood scales with brass tubular pins.

OAL 862 mm, with a 690 mm blade. PoB is 120 mm down the blade, weight is 676 g.

An Oakeshott type XX Longsword,

OaL: 48.4 in/123 cm

Blade Length: 36.75 in/93.3 cm

Weight: 3.6 lbs/1632.9 g

Germany, ca. 1500-1533, housed at the Art Institute of Chicago.

Yeah but what if our deathwatch marines were Slaves to Darkness Chaos Champions?

A lovely child’s Anima Cuirass, Swedish, ca. 1550, housed at the Swedish Royal Armouries.