Plate armor is primarily designed to deflect attacks, not absorb them, and putting a 'valley' right over your heart is pretty suicidal, as it would essentially redirect attacks right into the center of your chest. Second, a breastplate with separate indentations for each breast would be a huge risk to the wearer.
Your chest needs to expand so you can breathe, and you don't want the armor pressed right against you anyway, because it would transfer shock to your flesh and cause serious injury even if it did stop enemy weapons. While that sort of thing would work for armor made of flexible materials like leather, it wouldn't work so well for chain or plate armor. Maybe it's a case of confirmation bias or because I've only recently returned to playing M&B, but between Reddit, TaleWorlds, and the Nexus forums, I've seen numerous debates pop up over 'female' armor, and I decided I'd see about trying to put the matter to rest.įirst, in order for armor to fully accentuate the female form, it essentially has to hug the figure like a corset.
