Armour

Armour is material used as protection - whether worn on the body or attached to a vehicle - and in modern usage, "armour" can also mean vehicles protected by armour, or even military units equipped with armoured vehicles.
The design and construction of armour varies from age to age, from simple furs and skins protecting a stone-age tribesman, through medieval mail and plate armour and the ballistic vests of modern warriors to the power armour prevalent in science fiction.
For most purposes, armour can be taken to include shields.
== Personal Armour: ==
=== Pre-Modern: ===
Suits and types of armour:
* Banded Mail
* Brigandine
* Coat of Plates
* Chainmail
* Full plate armour
* Hide Armour
* Jazerant
* Laced Mail
* Lamellar armour
* Leather Armour
* Linothorax
* Munition Plate
* Padded Armour
* Plate Armour
* Plate Mail
* Plated Mail
* Ring Mail
* Segmented Plate Armour
* Scale Mail
* Splint Mail
* Wooden Armour
Individual armour pieces:
* Besagew
* Bracer
* Breastplate
* Coif
* Cowter - sometimes known as a cop.
* Cuirass
* Cuisse
* Culet - see Fauld
* Fauld
* Gardbrace
* Gauntlet
* Gorget
* Greave
* Helmet
* Pauldron
* Plackart
* Poleyn - also known as a knee-cop in many sources.
* Pteruges
* Roundel - see Besagew
* Sabaton
* Shield
* Solleret - see Sabaton
* Spaulder - see Pauldron
* Tasset - see Fauld
* Vambrace - see Bracer
=== Modern: ===
* Buff coat
* Ballistic Vest
* Ballistic Insert
* Riot Armour
* Ballistic Helmet
* Riot Helmet
* Stab vest
=== Sci-Fi: ===
* Forcefield / Tesla Forcefield Technology
* Power Armour
* Space Suit - not necessarily armoured, but it protects you against space exposure
* Starlite coating on other armour or uniform to make it fireproof and laser proof
=== Fantasy and Legend (including specific, named items): ===
* Gorgoneion
* Magic Item
* Panoply of Achillies
* The Aegis
* Spikey bitz
== Transport Armour: ==
* Barding
* Wheeled Shield
* Armoured Car
* Tank
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