welcome back to another armour tier list today we have seven characters for your delight and
or horror stick around to the end if you're a fantasy heroine fan as I have a book update for
you. I warn you in advance that we are not going to use all five of our possible tiers today you'll
see. top tier is I'd wear it it looks accurate or appealing or coherent preferably all three and it
also looks like someone could wear it as a costume on set or as a cosplay without wanting to die or
commit homicide after 30 minutes. pretty good is for things which are mostly fine but there's just
some stuff I'm not really on board with. Our often necessary but neutral category is not actually
armour which you can now buy as a hoodie by the way and no I will not stop mentioning that you
can buy things as hoodies because the fact that we have merch now fills me with joy. Not actually
armour means I make no comment on this as armour because it isn't it clearly isn't meant to be but
I probably have some aesthetic or practicality related opinions on it anyway so we'll talk about
those. Could be worse you can also get as a hoodie or as a mug but the last time I tried to order
it you couldn't get a mug I think they're back in stock now though is the category for it's clearly
meant to be armour and it's not great but they tried? And at the bottom everyone's favourite:
just stab me now. it's not protective it's actively hindering the wearer and it makes
you look like an eejit possibly the look you were going for was sexy eejit as we will see
but an eejit nonetheless. cheers. Sarah Kerrigan queen of blades okay is this is this armour that
she puts on or is it grown? I guess the question I'm really asking here is does this woman have
high-heeled feet on purpose? normally I don't bother to find out any context beyond what I
already know about a picture because honestly I feel like that makes it less entertaining and also
I get more engagement when people leave me eight paragraphs of fluff in the comments explaining
the in-universe justifications for things (never change Warhammer fans) but in this case I feel
like I have to know. To the internet! As far as I can tell from a brief search this stuff grew on
her and not in necessarily a consensual way. All right... she also seems to have psychic powers.
this you know what? it's just hideous. I mean I think it's hideous on purpose I think that's
what they're going for but it's just just looks so ugly. So this insecty stuff is presumably pretty
protective and it does cover most of her body so I guess points for that it is literally growing
on her skin rather than being something that she puts on over the top so it makes sense that it's
formed to her body. I mean it's still a choice made by the artist but it is at least a choice
that makes sense. but the SHOES. WHYYY. She is pretty well protected aside from this so I'm
going to go with could be worse but not by much by much. This close to the bottom tier Miss Kerrigan
because you can tell that sexy is the vibe they're going for but it just comes across kinda
weird. never mind moving on. Maple in her Black Rose armour with Tower Shield okay full-on sexy
eejit I see I mean you look at her and you think aww she's adorable and she has a shield we love
a shield but I'm assuming that you're a melee fighter in this getup. your head and neck are
completely unprotected but there are really big substantial chunks of metal covering your arms
and legs. I mean unlike Sarah Kerrigan you didn't get forced to wear this stupid outfit you chose it
yourself I mean obviously someone had to design Sarah Kerrigan but that's not really the point,
from a diegetic perspective she's doing better than you just because she didn't choose to have
it on her. I mean from a non-diegetic perspective the high-heeled exoskeleton is stupid but that's
not really the point in character she chooses to put on this armor and carry this shield and I'm
like but why the bare thighs also bare upper arms and again bare head and neck the further
out a piece of armour is from your centre of mass the heavier it feels because moment so
for example a pair of gauntlets are great to protect your hands but something of equivalent
weight is going to feel less encumbering if it's you know here or here rather than all the way out
here. And given that the size and coverage and thickness of all of the bits of armour
she is wearing it's just like honey and yes she does have a shield and shields are great but it
is a massive shield and she is demonstrably a waifish kind of character like can she hold it
can she carry it can she fight with it? I'm just saying you're gonna get tired really quickly and
if you can't lift it and turn it quickly then if someone gets behind you it is lights out for you
sorry just stab me now. I mean you are at least wearing cloth underneath all of the bits of metal
and so there isn't going to be as much chafing as with someone later on in this video but still
just stab me now. incidentally you can also get Just Stab Me Now on an apron and yes I did wear
that apron while cooking Christmas dinner with my husband this year but I should tell you that
it wasn't really a just stab me now I kind of experience because we were only cooking for five
and we had this whiteboard which told us all the times that we needed to do things so that we could
eat at a reasonable hour of the day and it worked really well! also we have two ovens now and it's
amazing! next Warhammer threes Miao Ying and Zhao Ming there is a non-zero chance I pronounced those
incorrectly but I did my best. Now the patron who requested these freely offered me the additional
useful piece of information that this person is a ranged fighter and this person is a melee fighter
so that is good to know let us examine them on this basis I don't particularly care for
the very easy to grab horns on his helmet but he is at least wearing a helmet so there is that.
I am a bit concerned about the mobility levels around his waist but then again I'm not quite
sure what some of these pieces are made of there's a definite aesthetic. It's a very spiky aesthetic,
I don't particularly care for it but there's a definite aesthetic there. I don't know this is
where we kind of need a yellow tier that isn't for not armour because I don't think it's bad
enough to put in could be worse but I don't like it enough to put it in pretty good. It's...
fine. If you have a strong opinion on whether or not it should be in the green tier or the
orange tier do leave a comment and let me know but it's kind of it's all right compared to
the other stuff we've had today it's amazing practicality wise I'm a little unsure about
it aesthetically it makes a strong statement but not the statement that I particularly like
just just looks kind of fussy I don't know, just looks kind of fussy. Now this even though it is
demonstrably less protective I like a lot better because it's a lot cleaner looking and of course
because she is a ranged fighter protection is important but not as important as if you're in
melee and mobility is important but not as important as if you're in melee. And she is
wearing a weird headpiece and not a helmet but I suppose you do need to be able to see as far
as possible if you are ranged and Magic is your thing so that's kind of semi-justifiable so even
though the dragon around her waist is probably going to make it difficult for her to bend I
think I'm still going to give this one a pretty good she's protected her torso she looks pretty
comfortable she's a ranged fighter and she doesn't really need the same kind of range of motion that
Mr melee over here does shout out to those of you who are old enough and British enough to
remember Mr motivator and his 90s spandex ah the 90s what were we wearing? Where was I? right Robin
Hood and the Sheriff of Nottingham in the final fight from Robin and Marion so I've been looking
at this footage and can anyone tell me because I cannot work it out is the Sheriff of Nottingham
I'm actually wearing a hauberk or haubergon or mail shirt or whatever you want to call it we
call it whatever around here we don't we don't get into the distinctions is he actually wearing one
of those or is he actually just wearing mail sleeves attached to a leather surcoat? if the
latter then we're straight up just stab me now but I'm going to be generous and assume that no it's a
full shirt under there we just can't see it. He's not wearing a helmet either and he could wear an
open face one that would be fine and you could still see his actorly Visage as my stage combat
instructors are wont to say: this is the money maker. but assuming very charitably that there is
mail under there then we're you know pretty good it's not standout amazing but you know it's very
serviceable. As for Robin what the actual heck is he wearing? I mean it's fine for what it is
but I I don't know what this thing on his head is like it's some form of head protection so points
for effort but ???? I look at this Ensemble and coverage wise it's fine but it offends me with its
ugliness so we're gonna go with could be worse I feel like could be worse is the most accessible
thing to put on merch because it doesn't matter if you know the context or not like could be worse is
a perfectly reasonable thing to have written on your mug. I don't currently have any could
be worse merch in the house but we're working on that so let's finish up. warhammer's Sigvald the
Magnificent ah look it's another candidate for the dress like a sexy eejit Club. I would like
to tell you at this point that I genuinely burst out laughing the first time I saw this picture and
so I thank you for it. As I mentioned at the start of the video I'm currently writing the
fantasy heroine shorts series into an actual book which is taking a large amount of my time because
it turns out that writing books is hard and I've never done it before but because of my patrons and
channel members that means that if my view count looks like this because I haven't published any
new videos in a few weeks that's okay because I have support by other means. But of course
financial support is not the only way you can bring me joy because I invite you to gaze upon
the Lucius Malfoy-esque magnificence of this. where do we even start? no head protection but
it is Warhammer so par for the course really bare arms now for all that I dunked on Maple over here
and to be fair she isn't wearing any upper arm protection at all she does at least have cloth
under all of the metal visible or at least under almost all of the metal that's visible
I mean they probably put it in there for the sexy schoolgirl in stockings aesthetic but you know if
you're going to be cosplaying something like this being able to wear tights or stockings or some
kind of fabric under your non-breathable metal or metal equivalent costume pieces is going to be an
advantage to you but Sigvald goes hardcore so he just puts large chunks of metal straight onto his
bare skin. He's also wearing mail Underpants and I really really hope that there is some kind of
cloth under there for numerous reasons. moving on his cuirass or cuirass if you prefer it's so
tight that he's gonna have trouble breathing and I know they modelled it on a muscle cuirass but
I don't see any straps that are connecting it at the sides to give him a little bit of wiggle room
for respiration so yeah that's gonna be that's gonna be interesting bending is also going to be
a problem for him significantly I would think on the plus side he's got a shield we love a shield
on the minus side again he's got a loincloth that's going to prove a little bit trippy if
he tries to run around too much. I'm a little concerned honestly. it's so stupid that I love
it it is sexy eejit armour at its finest I mean just stab the man now because he can't breathe and
if he runs he's either gonna trip over that floaty bit of cloth at the front or he's going to have an
unfortunate accident with that mail armour that's covering his bits but my gosh looking at him gives
me genuine hilarious joy and you can't say fairer than that. So those were our seven candidates
slash victims for the day let's talk books for a second. I'm currently on version 2 of the draft
of the fantasy heroine book which is tentatively entitled one crisis at a time and it is about 54
000 words long it is also missing a few key scenes most notably a couple between Caroline
and Henry but there we are if you watched the video I did with Joriam Ramos about the process
of writing the book then you will be happy to know that there is another video on its way but
I did film the footage for that one a couple of days ago when I was quite ill so I am not very
coherent so I apologise in advance for that but what can you do the thing was I I wrote I wrote
quite a lot of words over the Christmas period. Possibly I should have actually taken more of a
holiday and if I had that might have prevented me from getting really ill in the new year but maybe
maybe not who knows it doesn't matter 50 something thousand words is where we're at and we'll see how
we go from there. Full disclosure I don't have any plans at the moment to traditionally publish
this book and so there is no deadline, it's just going to be done when it's done but I will keep
you up to date. In the meantime video output will slow down a bit because it turns out that writing
books is really hard and requires quite a lot of thinking. Shocking I know. If you're a patron or
a channel member you'll probably see more of the work in progress stuff for the novel but
in the meantime here we are happy New Year more on this story as it develops and uh I'll see you soon