Please depict the Gauls accurately this time (duplicate from TWcenter)

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Originally Posted by Gerula

Romans copied almost everything they could get from Celts, especially shield and helmet

And that happened in a span of 2 centuries and roughly 400 years before Caesar...
Even back then, except for the shield and helmet, body armour wasn't so common for roman soldiers...

After Marius' reform, basically every legionary had the same equipment, fully armoured and that state, the roman republic, had the whole mediterranean resources to back such military force; Gallia, with its political disunity couldn't match any of that...

Adapting the Keltoi armaments, doesn't mean that every single warrior could afford a chain-mail (or even an helmet!)...
Not to mention ancient sources describing most of the Keltoi in battle, as naked or wearing simple trousers and cloaks...