@Kepotx Not really. You can dent and bend gold by exerting enough pressure with your bare hands. Now imagine a steel sword with the weight of the attacker behind it.
That's why Gold plated armors were used only for ceremonial purposes
IRL
In universe, that's why Jaime's regular armour is gilded steel, not actual Gold as many believe.
@Kepotx Yeah I think I saw one on NatGeo where they measure the force of bite of some predators and how much of it would be needed to break human bones
> Quoting a bike-helmet study published in the Journal of Neurosurgery: Pediatrics, he wrote that 235 kg (520 pounds) or 2,300 newtons of force would be needed to crush a human skull
Not I never said bare hands. I just said that it wouldn't require "that" much weight
> The hand was wrought of gold, very lifelike, with inlaid nails of mother-of-pearl, its fingers and thumb half closed so as to slip around a goblet's stem.
> A thousand years of humus lay thick upon the godswood floor, swallowing the sound of her feet, but the red eyes of the weirwood seemed to follow her as she came.