Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-26065088-20170428203828/@comment-26890432-20170501233523

Actually, when facing an opponant wearing a full suit of plate armour, there are two options. One option was to knock them over, and then finish the job by either ramming a thin sword, dagger or rondel into the eye-slits, groin, or armpits: where plates of metal weren't developed to protect. Or, as Recneps has said, apply enough blunt force to kill the wearer. But this is much easier said than done: Underneath a suit of plate armour, there would be several pieces of padded or leather "arming wear" and under that, a tunic.(Yes, even under the helmet. Can you imagine wearing a metal helmet with no padding?). So you'd have to strike hard and repeatedly with a mace or warhammer. Another, less viable option, would be to directly pierce the armour with a weapon such as a warhammer, war-pick, or halberd. But, this is only semi-viable, because extruding the weapon from the victim and their armour would be extremely difficult, and thus a hinderance in a pitched battle.

What weapons were used to unbalance heavily armoured opponents were, more often than not, polarms.