Lion El'Jonson primarch of the Dark Angels (Warhammer 40K) and Geralt wearing book-mentioned headband.
To my understanding, such helmets moved away from mail aventail attached directly to the sides of the helmet, like we see with open face bascinets and bascinets in general, because that is worse for neck movement and the protection is almost equal.
So my questions is: Did people use only mail collars/standards with celatas and barbutas, for comfort and general ease of use, while the protection was deemed as "enough" (in comparison to open face bascinets, these celatas and barbutas seem to go a bit lower and ofc to the front, so overlapping with the collar much more, almost like a great helm), and the helmet itself provided the lining. OR did people use (half) mail coifs on top of it so that it would be almost impossible to slip a blade in between.
I guess it depends if choosing such helmet is for battle or for patrolling/travelling, and ofc barbutas might lean toward one and celatas to the other, but ofc can overlap for more specific reasons.
So my actual question is if perhaps the coifs started being less popular, because it seems that it definitely happened when articulated plate collars and gorgets moved in and replaced the mail collars entirely, it seems that no mail was present there, but its actually hard to tell.
"Gold" version of it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fl7fWB-O-lo (all existing cards have one ingame, it's like in Heartstone, but there it's just the heroes, here it's everything)
Btw I can absolutely recommend the game for anyone who likes The Witcher universe, even for those who dont like Gwent that much, you can skip combat and play it almost as a Telltale game.
It expands the Nilfgaard invasion lore pretty nicely, while still not being afraid of certain brutalities, general grim topics and stylization, Elven racism (both) etc., stuff that makes The Witcher so engaging.
It also got banger soundtrack and extremely thick atmosphere in certain parts of the story https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62pjwC-fQRk&list=PLoM8nc2PbrLSpRNBgq0MXCAyT2Zf8z5rB&index=83 (its a yt list)