Military Tuesday : Edutainment Games (III) – Know Your Gladiator & Medieval Armour
A couple of Flash toys originally for children to learn about gladiator and medieval armour but I found these mini-toys educational yet entertaining.
© BBC
The first mini toy from BBC – Gladiator : Dressed To Kill teaches players the major differences of three classes of gladiators – the myrmillo, the retiarius and the hoplomachus.
© BBC
You have 60 seconds to select 4 pieces of weapons and equipment for a particular gladiator before he’s thrust into mortal combat with another gladiator of an opposing class e.g myrmillo vs thraex or retiarius vs secutor.
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To maximize your chances of winning the fight as well as the wooden sword thereby granting your gladiator his freedom, four clues are provided to assist you in the proper selection of his equipment ; a improperly armed and equipped gladiator runs the risk of getting condemned to death for losing in the arena.
For illustrations of gladiators, check out Johnny Shumate’s portfolio on ImagineFX.
© National Army Museum UK
The other mini toy Battle Dress comes from National Army Museum of the United Kingdom and educates players on the proper names of each piece of medieval armour and the correct sequence to don each armour piece. There are three characters to suit up : a warhorse, an archer and a heavily armoured medieval knight.
© National Army Museum UK
Although the warhorse has the least number of armour pieces (nine), it was the most enlightening experience of all three – I didn’t even know that there was a specific name Escutcheon for the metal spike affixed onto the head armour of a horse. 
© National Army Museum UK
Dressing up the archer and knight is comparatively easy if you’ve played your share of fantasy RPGs 
Play Gladiator : Dressed To Kill or Battledress.
MORE @ THE DOWNLOAD MUNKEY:
Edutainment Games (II) – Alpha Assault
Edutainment Games (I) – Typeracer
King Richard I The Lionheart & Saladin Wallpapers from Medieval Total War 2
Warrior Knight Wallpapers
Soul of the Ultimate Nation Wallpapers
Mark of Chaos – The Collected Concept Art
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