Putting on your arm and shoulder armor can sometimes be quite a challenge. When it comes to arm harness, there are a few different types of armor available. To protect your shoulders, you've got pauldrons. For the rest of your arm, you can choose between full arm protection, just vambraces (vambraces) or just elbow cops.
Full arm protection, vambraces, and elbow cops all work the same way to put on. Pauldrons work a bit differently though.
How do you best put on your arm and shoulder armor?
Putting on arm protection
Full arm protection consists of vambraces, elbow cops, and upper arm harness. If you feel like full arm harness is too much, you can also choose to wear just vambraces or elbow cops. You can put on all these pieces of arm protection by fastening them to your arms with straps and buckles.
If you're wearing full arm protection, the elbow cops should be put on last, because they need to overlap the upper arm and forearm pieces.
Putting on pauldrons
Pauldrons work partly the same as the other arm protectors—they also have straps that go around your arm. However, they also need to be attached to a collar or bevor. They can also be attached to some breastplates/armor, but not all of them.
A gorget/bevor usually has a belt and a buckle on each shoulder. These straps should be closed in a loop with the opening facing to the side. You can thread the belt at the top of each shoulder bag through the loop on the collar/bevor and close that belt with the buckle too.
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