Armor is the protection for the body worn in battle. Some of the pieces of armor that would be used are mail, plate armor, leather, shields, and helmets. Mail needed all the skill of a master craftsman. The iron wire could not be made in large amounts, because there were no machines to make it like there are today. Each piece had to be made slowly and painfully, by hand. A piece of iron was …showed first 75 words of 923 total…

…showed last 75 words of 923 total…was finished. The knight was not needed or wanted on the battlefield. He fought for fame and glory; the new armies fought to win. Armor was useless on the battlefield because of advancements in power to long distance weaponry. Longbows and guns could be used by the individual fighter himself, canons could be used to distory whole areas. Even though most types of armor became usless it stayed around until the middle of the sixteenth-century.