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🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Thu, Sep 8, 2016 04:14 PM UTC:

The top part of the Spider piece would look something like a spider if it had eight prongs instead of six.

I did just learn that the word "dragoon" is related to the word "dragon," but the origin of the word makes the armored helmet an anachronistic way to represent a dragoon. Dragoons were originally so called, because they carried a firearm called a dragon. Given that dragons are supposed to be dangerous, fire-breathing monsters, it's an appropriate name for a firearm. But firearms made the usual armor of knights obsolete. This armor had been designed to protect against weapons like swords and arrows, but it couldn't protect as well against firearms, and in a battle with firearms it would serve more to slow a soldier down than to protect him.


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