User blog comment:Omnicube1/Trung Trac vs. Boudica/@comment-69.195.136.106-20110430043753/@comment-67.247.143.113-20110501001346

Ring mail will stop stab attacks, it's stupid to wear it other wise, leather armor will stop slashes and hack pretty well but won't stop stabs, that is why mail was invented. It would be a waist of materail to make mail if it didn't stob stabs becasue a leather shirt would work just as well at a fraction of the cost. . I don't know what you mean by Golden plated but Gold is increadably weak, it makes terrible armor. She may of wore leather with gold plating, but that is weaker than mail.