User blog comment:Swg66/Celtic Chieftain vs Rajput Warrior/@comment-422690-20101005212021/@comment-1846370-20101005215237

pretty much all armor has some weakness to blunt force tramua, but chainmail is really bad with blunt force because it's like wearing and iron shirt, it very mobile and the rings will bunch up when stabed or slashed ( this is where the rviting process makes the huge difference, if the rings are just bent together (butted chainmail) they will just be pulled apart, but if they are rivited they make a soild ring meaning the the rings will hold togther against almost any stab or cut by buching up and catching it, you need a highly specialized weapon to get through it) but those shifting rings that make it so mobile and effective agaist slashes and stabs also mean that it can't aborb blunt forse very well, which is why later in time the Vikings, Normans, and the later knight began using it with lamellar or in the knight's case full plate armor.