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In the foreword, Tim Kask describes Swords & Spells as the "grandson" of Chainmail. [14] In the introduction to the game, Gary Gygax wrote that the Chainmail fantasy supplement assumed man-to-man combat, and rules for "large-scale" fantasy battles were missing, so Swords & Spells was developed to cover 1:10 and 1:1 ratio fantasy battles: [15]
Chain mail (also known as chain-mail, mail or maille) [1] is a type of armour consisting of small metal rings linked together in a pattern to form a mesh. It was in common military use between the 3rd century BC and the 16th century AD in Europe, while it continued to be used in Asia, Africa, and the Middle East as late as the 17th century.
Jeff Perren was an early member of the Lake Geneva Tactical Studies Association along with Gary Gygax, Terry Kuntz and Rob Kuntz, Ernie Gygax, Mike Reese, Leon Tucker, and Don Kaye. [1] Perren created his own set of rules for Siege of Bodenburg , and shared these rules with Gygax. [ 2 ]
Coat covered with gold-decorated scales of the pangolin. India, Rajasthan, early 19th century Dacian scale armour on Trajan's column. Scale armour is an early form of armour consisting of many individual small armour scales (plates) of various shapes attached to each other and to a backing of cloth or leather in overlapping rows. [1]
Mail and plate armour (plated mail, plated chainmail, splinted mail/chainmail) is a type of mail with embedded plates. Armour of this type has been used in the Middle East , North Africa , Ottoman Empire , Japan , China , Korea , Vietnam , Central Asia , Greater Iran , India , Eastern Europe , and Nusantara .
Chain mail or Chainmail is a type of armour. Also known as Chain maille or Chainmaille. Chain mail, Chainmail, or Chain Mail may also refer to: Chain mail, or chain letters, messages sent from person to person that form a 'chain' Chainmail, a wargame which was the precursor to Dungeons & Dragons; Chain Mail, novel by Diane Carey 2001
4-1 link pattern. The most common pattern of linking the rings together is the 4-to-1 pattern, where each ring is linked with four others. Historically, the rings composing a piece of mail would be riveted closed to reduce the chance of the rings splitting open when subjected to an attack.
The Japanese used many different weave methods to produce kusari mail, including: a square 4-in-1 pattern (so-gusari), a hexagonal 6-in-1 pattern (hana-gusari), [8] and a European 4-in-1 (nanban-gusari), [9] the kusari links could be doubled up, and some examples were tripled in a possible attempt to make the kusari bullet resistant. [10]