Editing Helmet (section)

== Some types of helmets ==

===Ancient World===
*'''Boar Tusk Helmet''': From Mycenaean Greece (1600 BCE to 1200 BCE), it was made by making a leather hat and sewing onto it slices of boar tusks. Making such a helmet required hunting down and killing something like 40 boars for their tusks. This was pretty badass and served as a status symbol that entailed either you were able to personally slaughter scores of angry boars without being gored to death or had the right connections to those who could do so.
*'''Corinthian''': Most popular variety of ancient (800 BCE to 0) Greek Hoplite Helmet, made of bronze, a single piece affair with built in cheek guards and nose guard (known as a nasal). Often had a horse hair/plumed crest.
*'''Galea''': The Helmet worn by Roman legionaries, made out of several pieces of bronze or steel. Had cheek guards on hinges and a back guard to protect the neck. Came with a detachable horse hair/plumed chrest for special occasions. Unlike most helmets of it's time it does not cover ears, because being able to hear orders is actually more important, especially in Roman maniple formation, where coordination was EVERYTHING. Being practical SOB's, Romans even added special hook to fix the helmet on the soldiers belt when on the march, because marching all day long with ''heavy'' chunk of metal on your head is usually a bad idea, unless your neck is as thick as normal man's hip, and keeping your helmet on the supply cart is an even worse idea, unless you don't expect ambushes (and good soldiers on the march should ''always'' expect ambushes).
*'''Steel Masks''': a variety of these were used alongside conventional helmets to protect the face by a variety of cultures.
*'''Late Roman Ridge''': A transition to the medieval Spangenhelm and Nasal helm, this was adopted towards the end of the Roman Empire, and kept around by the Byzantines and Subroman Brits.
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Image:Boar's Tusk Helmet.jpg|Boar's Tusk Helmet
IMAge:Corinthian Helmet.jpg| Corinthian Helmet
Image:CorinthianPlume.jpg| Corinthian Helmet with decorative plume
Image:Centurion Galea.jpg|Imperial Galea with Centurion's plume
Image:Late Roman Ridge.jpg| Late Roman Ridge helmet
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===Middle Ages & Renaissance===
*'''Spangenhelm''': A dark age (5th to 9th century) helmet made of bits of iron forged riveted onto a frame. An easier form to forge than an iron bowl for unskilled smiths. Sometimes had a nasal or cheek guards attached. The Sassanian version draped chainmail from the helm down to the chest, leaving only slits for the eyes. Viking helmets were a type of spanghelm that featured an eye guard. They didn't have horns, though.
*'''Nasal helm''': Basically a Spangenhelm, but made from one solid piece of metal, and it always had a nasal guard. This was the iconic helmet of the Normans and early Crusaders.
*'''Cervelliere''': A dark age/medieval helmet composed of a single steel dome. Became more common as armorers got better at their trade. It might come with a nasal guard.
*'''Kettle Hat''': A steel dome with a wide brim around it, sometimes with a nasal. A common helmet for common soldiers in the late middle ages as it offered a good deal of protection against arrows and other projectiles while allowing good visibility. While not ideal for a ground battle since the entire head below the scalp was exposed, it was excellent in sieges when most attacks were coming from above.
*'''Maille Coif''': To better protect people's heads, they often wore hoods made of [[mail|chainmail]]. Often, though not always in conjunction with a more conventional helmet, or else the mail attached to the bottom of the helmet to act as a faceguard called an aventail. This practice was common across Europe, the Middle East and Asia.
*'''Enclosed Helm''': Predecessor to the great helm, the enclosed helm was basically a metal hat with a faceguard attached to the front. The great helm added neck protection and made the helmet into one solid piece.
*'''Great helm''': A steel bucket with eyeholes wore by [[knight]]s. They came in two varieties: Flat-topped, and conical. The flat-topped versions came first, but it was discovered that making the top conical helped to glance sword-strikes away from the head. Why it was not conical from the beginning is a mystery, as the nasal helm was conical so they should have been aware of its advantages. Still, despite being introduced after most of the crusades (and all of the successful ones) had been fought, it became one of the most recognizable symbols of the crusades.
*'''Barbute''' Corinthian 2, Electric Boogaloo! Basically a Corinthian Helmet made of steel minus the crest. Additionally, due to visors already being commonplace when it was used, it was likely to have a visor on it unlike the Corinthian.
*'''Sallet''': A type of steel helmet from the late middle ages. It's main component covered cheeks and had a lock neckguard in the back. To protect the face it would have a face guard bolted on, which could be raised or lowered. One good thing about the visor was that it only covered the upper half of the face, meaning that it could be removed and that the face would still be protected by the falling buffe that protected the lower half of the face. Can occasionally be seen on [[The Empire (Warhammer Fantasy)| Empire Greatswords]] when they aren't sticking with the floppy [[hat]]s.
*'''Bascinet''': A conical helmet with the point facing towards the back of the head. Oftentimes combined with a detachable face guard that was likewise conical, commonly called the "pig's snout." However, the bascinet could be worn without the face guard.
*'''Armet''': Another type of full head helmet worn in the late middle ages. It came with three parts, a main component covering the back, a visor and a chinplate. Thus allowing full head protection while being much easier to move about than a clumsy great helm. You might recall the basic look of this helmet from the [[Grey Knights]].
*'''Cabasset''': A halfway point between the Kettle hat and the Morion, the Cabasset offered the protection of a rim with the glancing surface of a conical top.
*'''Morion''': A type of helmet similar to a Kettle hat, but with a top part which came to a ridge and dipped down on the sides to cover the ears. Often morions would have cheek guards. Most commonly associated with Conquistadors. 
*'''Frog-Mouth''': As the name implies, these-oddly shaped helmets look like a frog's mouth. These helmets were basically made for one purpose, that being jousting. That's because they would be impractical for combat, as the helmet had very little visibility and a complete lack of neck articulation, its sole purpose was to protect the head from lances.
*'''Lobster Pot''': Also called the zischägge, it's a helmet from the Renaissance period and age of enlightenment composed of a steel dome with a visor, cheek guards and a back guard made of overlapping steel plates riveted together (looking like a lobster tail). They usually came with a nasal or a faceguard of some sort. These helmets were used by both cavalry and infantry, and are most commonly associated with the Winged Hussars and the New Model Army.
*'''Burgonet''': Another Renaissance cavalry helmet, the Burgonet features a comb and cheek guards like the Morion, with an optional faceguard as well. The Burgonet was basically the standard European cavalry helmet from the Thirty Years War up through the Napoleonic Wars. The French Cuirassier helmets used up until WW1 were essentially just cheekless Burgonets.
*'''Kabuto''': Japanese [[Samurai]] helmets, have a dome part as well as a back made of laminar protecting the neck and cheeks. For facial protection they had a mempo, a stylized mask.
*'''Jingasa''': Japanese Ashigaru Helmet, these were usually cone shaped (though latter ones bore a resemblance to Morions and kettle hats) and made of steel or lacquered wood.
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Spangenhelm.JPG| Frankish Spangenhelm
Image:Viking Helmet.jpg|Viking Helmet, a type of spangenhelm. Note the lack of horns.
Image:Nasal Helm.png| Nasal helm
Image:Norman Italian.jpg|Norman-Italian, a variant of the Nasal helm
Image:Cervelliere.gif| A Cervelliere
Image:Kettle Hat.jpg| Kettle hat
Image:Mail Coif.jpg| A Mail Coif
Image:Enclosed Helm.jpg|Enclosed Helm
Image:Great Helm.png| Great helm, flat-top style
Image:Sugarloaf Great Helm.jpg| Great helm, Sugarloaf style
Image:Barbute T-shape.JPG| T-shaped Barbute
Image:Barbute Y-shape.jpg| Y-shaped Barbute
Image:Sallet.jpg|A sallet
Image:Bascinet Hounskull.jpg| Bascinet with "Hounskull" visor
Image:Armet.jpg| An Armet
Image:Cabasset.jpg| A Cabasset
Image:Morion.jpg| A Morion
Image:Frog-mouth.jpg| Frog-mouth helm
Image:Lobster pot.jpg|Lobster-pot helmet
Image:Burgonet.png|A Burgonet
Image:Kabuto.jpg|A Kabuto
Image:Jingasa.JPG| A Jingasa
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===Modern===
*'''Pith Helmet''': These are the iconic helmets of British soldiers of the Victorian era, as well as stereotypical explorers (and USPS employees) up to the present. Pith helmets were pith/cork domes covered in cloth, meant more for protection from heat in tropical climates (in addition to the shade, they could be soaked in water to provide evaporative cooling) than enemy attack, though lighter hats like the panama hat are preferred for this purpose nowadays. Still, many would reinforce the helmet with a band of cloth to help absorb sword strikes to the head. It was often joked that an Englishman could not survive outside their native country without a pith helmet.
*'''Pickelhaube''': Also known as that one German helmet with the big, central ceremonial spike pointing straight up. Even in its day it was widely mocked, and it took a World War for the Germans to realize that it was in fact a terrible design for a helmet (the thing wasn't even metal, it was boiled leather), when it was replaced by the Stalhelm. When actually worn in the field the Pickelhaube did, at least, have a drab fabric covering put over the shiny spike to make it slightly less obtrusive. British snipers prided themselves in de-spiking them at 300 yards. In less-well researched media, the Pickelhaube and the Stahlhelm are sometimes conflated, resulting in the ahistorical absurdity of an otherwise strictly-utilitarian steel helmet with a completely useless ornament stuck incongruously on top.
*'''Adrian Helmet''': Helmets fell out of fashion starting around the 18th century as they were often not much use against firearms and were deemed to be dead weight while they were also believed to kill offensive fighting spirit (space marines approve of this message, though in truth armor tends to have the opposite effect by making the wearer overconfident). This changed during the Great War, artillery shells would splinter into fragments when they exploded. These fragments came to account for huge casualties in the trenches but could be stopped by a simple steel helmet. The French found this out first and in 1915 first made the Adrian Helmet. It was easily made out of stamped steel in very large numbers and reduced shrapnel casualties significantly. It had a brim which was more prominent in the front. Several other countries also copied them.
*'''Brodie Helmet''': The British thought the French were onto a good idea with their Adrian helmets and designed their own. The Brodie Helmets were based off Kettle Hats and is wide enough that it offers some protection to the shoulders as well.. Used by troops across the British Empire during both world wars and by US troops during the Great War.
**Both the Brodie and Adrian helmet look a little weird to modern eyes because there designed to protect from shrapnel from above, which considering the nature of trench warfare makes the designs make more sense. They're still considered poorly designed for wearing.
*'''Stahlhelm''':The Germans also thought the French were onto a good idea with their Adrian helmets and designed their own. The Stahlhelm was based off the Sallet. It is considered to be the best helmet of that time period as it protected the neck and ears. In fact, it was so good that even the Chinese were buying them like a drug-filled hooker and many German allies as well (leading to an ironic situation where it was a symbol of the Axis in Europe but a symbol of the Allies in Asia). It would later became commonly associated with the [[Nazi]]s. The basic cut however would become the basis for all modern helmets after WW2, especially since it was conductive to including ear protection/coms headset under it.
*'''M1 Helmet''': The US decided that the Brodie Helmet did not quite cut the mustard, so they designed their own helmet for use during WWII. It was thicker and bent down in the back and had less of a brim. Would be the basis for several early Cold War helmets on both sides of the Iron Curtain (leading to cases where people had problems telling apart a friend from foe from a distance), many even meant to survive bullets, but the stahlhelm style eventually won out.
*'''M-56''': though developed during the nazi period, it was eventually adopted in 1956 as the standard East German helmet and remained so for the entirety of its existence. As the East Germans did not want to use the Stahlhelm due to its association with nazism and the possibility that West Germany would use it (they ultimately did not, around the same time, they developed a copy of the M1 to replace the Stahlhelm, [[derp|which they still called a Stahlhelm]]), they instead adopted the M-56 as it is the German helmet with most resemblance to Soviet helmets (to the point west first assumed it was Soviet) and did not resemble the Stahlhelm. Though its distinct appearance is considered odd by many, many also consider it the best pre-composite helmet due to its deflective angles.
*'''Modern Combat Helmet''': Modern Combat Helmets like the British Mk-7 or the Advanced Combat Helmet (ACH) are made of layers of metal, fiberglass, ceramics and ballistic textiles, often with a cloth covering for camouflage purposes. Helmets can also be outfitted with loads of accessories, from helmet-mounted night-vision goggles, to cameras, and so forth. As of current, the ACH and its successor the Enhanced Combat Helmet (ECH) are both due to be replaced by the Integrated Head Protection System (IHPS). Ceradyne is the producer of both the ECH and IHPS, as well as several other defensive gear such as the E-SAPI protective plates the US military uses.
** Perhaps the most important upgrade these brought is the suspension system. Rather than be in direct contact with the head, the helmet was now suspended over the head. Equally important is the strips which go behind the head and also over the chin like a cup instead of under it. This makes it much more likely to stay on and stay attached. Supposedly old Japanese armor had this style of chin strap, but evidence is shaky.
*'''Safety Helmet''': basic helmets of plastic and steel made to protect the user from occupational hazards since the 1920s. Generally not for ballistic protection unless specified, but as many a rioter/protestor can tell you, better then nothing especially against non-ballistic trauma. Some plastic ones intended for use outdoors incorporate a UV-exposure indicator, as prolonged exposure to sunlight can eventually make them become brittle and ineffective.

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Image:Pith Helmet.jpg|Pith Helmet
Image:Pickelhaube.jpg|A Pickelhaube worn on the head of [[Tzeentch|Otto von Bismarck]], though in this particular case the Pickelhaube in question is atypically made of metal.
Image:Adrian_Helmet.jpg|An Adrian Helmet, the Helmet that made helmets cool again
Image:Brodie Helmet.jpg|Brodie Helmet
image:Stalhelm.jpg| The Stahlhelm, technically a WWI helmet but made famous by Nazi Germany
Image:M1helmet.jpg|M1 helmet 
Image:PASGT Helmet.jpg| PASGT helmet, a modern helmet with many derivatives
Image:US Marine ECH Helmet.jpg| Enhanced Combat Helmet (ECH), derivative of a line of combat helmets and ultimately related to the PASGT in design
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