armored combat
Steel-clad fighting
Armored combat is fighting while wearing protective gear, especially medieval-style plate armor.
The term appears in historical reenactment and competitive martial arts contexts, where participants don steel helmets and body armor to engage in full-contact fighting with blunted weapons: The tournament featured armored combat with swords and shields.
Distinguished from unarmored sparring by the weight and protection of the equipment.
joust
Mounted lance combat
chainmail · helm · gauntlet · greaves · vambrace · cuirass · buckler · lance · halberd · surcoat
tank
Large storage vessel
- infantryGround combat troops
- artilleryLarge-caliber battlefield weapons
- battalionMid-sized military unit
tactics · platoon · flank · siege · bunker · ambush · warfare · mechanized · cavalry · engagement
- medieval warfareknights, siege warfare, castle, castle siege, siege
- armor warfaretanks, tank battalions, tank commanders, tank crews, blitzkrieg
- joustingjoust, jousting, lance, tilt, tilting
armored combathand-to-hand combat
Fighting without distance weapons
guerrilla tactics · irregular warfare · unconventional warfare · asymmetric warfare · naval warfare
armored combatguerrilla warfare
Irregular combat using ambushes
cyber warfare · covert operations · stealth operations · asymmetric warfare · psychological operations
armor, armored, armour, armoured, armoury, armory, armed, arming, disarm