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Not to continue the derail, but the Middle Ages are so quickly becoming one of my favourite time periods in history. Those helmets look awesome.

Because no one ever said the Middle Ages were a utopia. The argument has always been that it was a far more sophisticated and advanced time than it was given credit for, not an era of naked barbarism and ignorance between the Fall of Rome and the Enlightenment.

They go for that colour as well, probably because they have quite a warped understanding/misunderstanding of the Middle Ages. If you survived infancy, life could be quite tolerable in a world of community, king, and festivals.

Come to think of it, House Frey's levies in Game of Thrones TV weren't very good. As I recall their "helmets" were leather caps and they hadn't even put up a picket line when they were laying siege to a castle.

Dauntless from Divergent. Their basic training is literally built to set recruits against each other, when unit cohesion is easily the most vital part of any military. And that's without talking about how the ranking system (essentially if you're not above a certain line, you get thrown out...