well lorica segmenta is the only type of roman armour i could remember and it sounds cleverer. but if it was an armour upgrade it wouldnt take up a unit slot thingy would it ?
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well lorica segmenta is the only type of roman armour i could remember and it sounds cleverer. but if it was an armour upgrade it wouldnt take up a unit slot thingy would it ?
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*sigh* Lorica Segmenta was not used by the Romans in the EB timeperiod, please don´t bring it up again as it is a bit of a recurrent joke among EB diehards that so many people ask for it to be included.
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Here's a question, did anyone else use that type of armour? LS is a little unique and hard to classify since its somewhere between plate and lamellar armor.
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It's normally called "laminate" (the individual horizontal strip being a "lame"). It seems to first turn up in Achaemenid Persian heavy-cavalry arm defenses, although the Central Asian nomads may have been the originators, and thereafter got pretty popular among cataphracts as limb armour. I'm under the impression the Romans first used it on gladiators, and at some point came up with the idea of adapting the construction into corselet form.Originally Posted by antisocialmunky
Post Antiquity it eventually starts turning up all over the place in one form or another as an independent design.
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HAMATA!!! FOR THE LOVE OF GOD SAY HAMATA!!!
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Hamata.
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True, however armour upgrades are problematic for another reason (one cannot adjust the exact magnitude of the upgrade). Also, technology spread through other ways than conquest. For example, the Macedonians and Greeks adopted chainmail despite never conquering a Roman or Celtic town. And, to get back to your example, what would the Gauls adopt if they conquered a Roman town? Chainmail? Celts invented chainmail. Roman shields? The oval legionary shield was a direct copy of a Celtic design. Romans helmets? See previous answer.
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so will the romans only have chainmail/lorica hamata is that the right one ?
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That will be the main Roman armour, yes. However, if EB1 is any guide, there will also be several Roman units wearing lorica squamata (scale).
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