Burgundian Kettle is a trash tier Kettle Helmet, but they're my favourite kind.
The rest are for poncy knights, Kettle Hats are the workhorse of helmet designs.
Hounskull looks like a muppet. Like you would slip in the mud and look up to them mocking you.
It does look ridiculous but I think that cuts both ways. I imagine looking over to see your friends getting cut down by some merciless armored fighter, and all you see when you look over is this doofy snout helmet covered in gore, dark eye slits staring back as he walk toward you like some murderous steel pigman. Nightmare.
Being able to breathe in all the moments when you aren't neck deep in pikemen is a surprisingly underrated feature
I have had to wear a helmet for work. The one I wear is most like a sallet. If the other ones were so good we'd still be using them.
Shout out to the kettle hat though. Being able to hear and breath properly is gonna do more to keep me from getting got in the face than any extra weight will.
Nah. I think they use great helms. The fire department helmet is basically that same shape. When I worked on an ambulance you got one like that in case you needed to do rescue stuff.
It’s gotta be the bascinet, specifically the pig faced bascinet. Medieval hog out or log out
Gotta be kettle hat. It protects you from arrows and overhead blows without suffocating you.
The frogmouth looks like it's made to deflect arrows and maybe transfer energy from getting bopped on the head down into your shoulders. Can you even swivel your head around inside it or is your head basically held in place? If you could that might be a good concept for a helmet, the enemy wouldn't even know where you're looking. That would be really intimidating.
it was bolted in place. these late jousting pieces were significantly thicker and made inflexible to remove as much vulnerability as possible, because no one wants to die playing games, and you don't move much on the lists. the slit is still where you could get seriously injured, but that was as good as it could get at the time.