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Re wearing the chainmail: I too assume it was for getting used to the weight. I was once told a story about a guy who had them (real metal chain mail no deco stuff) during a larp event. Their ruleset gave each fighter 3 hit points; this guy managed to wear two mailshirts and asked if he can claim 6 hp. Knowing the weight of that stuff the GM said: "If you can really manage to wear that during the whole battle you deserve the 6."
Btw.: isn't there a branch of archeology doing exactly that on a fully professional level? Testing old construction plans and reconstruct old tools and weapons from descriptions to test if they worked as good (or bad) as the historic records claimed they did? archeological engineering was the term afair.
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