Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-32865299-20171004210031/@comment-32865299-20171104165930

WoodenBox wrote: Ithilion, we are not debating Middle-Earth, we are debating plate armour.

Kick- Even if they didn't feel pain, say they slammed a man in full plate with an axe, cracking a rib. The knight then responds by stabbing the beserker in his unprotected heart, killing him. Even if a beserker doesn't feel pain, a cut muscle or damaged organ or artery can take him out of the fight in a few minutes. For your unprotected by armour, joints still have a lower layer of chainmail, and the many gorgets were attached to helmets and went down over the chestplate. True one could stab him in the heart, but not before he lopps off your head, have you heard of boar/bear spears? if not they are spears with small lugs drilled in to stop the animal from charging through the spear and killing the person using it. That would happen similarily, even though this Berserker is 'dead' he still has the power to kill the knight

There would be chain beneath the plate, yes. But chain provides minimal protection against a stab from a well made dagger as this dagger can break the links or find a way through the links.