Talk:Katana/@comment-28723979-20160613224157/@comment-92.237.227.180-20181021125606

For all you people who don't know, butted chain mail is the only kind of mail that you can pierce via thrust since the links ends are just pressed together which makes the overall protection weaker than the better kind of mail, riveted chain mail, wherein the links ends are riveted together and are very much inpossible to pierce.

Since butted chain mail is so piss poor at staying together, even a katana could pierce it. But realistically, riveted chain mail would be more common thanks it being no more expensive than butted mail and more protective overall. Chain mail in Japan (at least, the small amount of it that was used (to my knowledge)) was largely butted with a few pieces of riveted mail here and there whereas in Europe riveted mail was the norm.

I just felt like this relevant to the convo, please don't lynch me if I went too perpendicular to the topic.