yeah arrows were the most effective weapon against mail armor. Mail is designed to deflect edged blows. even still if you get clobbered by a longsword while wearing mail your going to have a few broken ribs. and the bodkin was designed to pierce Plate so mail would be easy.
What the frog says is mostly false. While that was true after a rout, many battles that have decided history (like Hastings and Tours) were won when defeat looked inevitable but the enemy leaders were killed, collapsing morale.
Bonus fact: The Normans were 30 minutes from defeat at Hastings when a cavalry charge mortally wounded and killed the king, causing an English rout where victory was all but assured.
Chainmail is not impervious to attacks at all.
It was the cushoning "vams" (a soft wooljacket) that served as protector. The chainmail would sink into the soft material, and not get pierced as easily.
But chainmail directly over the body pierces quite easily by arrows.
Ever wonder why Europe has the fewest animals and trees on earth? Needs to make its JEEP smaller to fit the streets of all others nations it invaded? You guys never learned to farm, and in 1169AD with SodomyPeterPower could explode castles. Knights never made a castle, they stormed them at night, exploding apart the Castle walls. Oldest Torah is 1225 AD because Kill the Farmers, did not like that all other nations valued Lord nine:YHWH Oxen. Straight Blades are honorless, never self defense in mind. wiki/Western_European_marriage_pattern#Middle_Ages
The first fact is wrong. Absolutely wrong. Arrows were extremely effective against mail. If the first facts is so wrong, I doubt any of the other "facts" are correct at all.
Bonus fact: The Normans were 30 minutes from defeat at Hastings when a cavalry charge mortally wounded and killed the king, causing an English rout where victory was all but assured.
It was the cushoning "vams" (a soft wooljacket) that served as protector. The chainmail would sink into the soft material, and not get pierced as easily.
But chainmail directly over the body pierces quite easily by arrows.