Quote Originally Posted by Darth Stalin
1. Imperial First Cohort (and make it cost some 10% more?), but recruitable only in Italy
2. Evocati Augusti (Praetorian Veterans), recruitable only in Rome, costing even more than Praetorians (which will be recruitable, as historically, in Latium, Umbria and Etruria)
Even if one were to be generous about it, LS would at best be the equivalent of the monolith cuirass and the "quality" chain worn by Celtic elites, the Ptolemaic Basilikon Agema and the Praetorians as far as armour points (and price, for that matter) go, though...
and I'll make an "Provincial Imperial First Cohort" to be recruited in some provinces outside Italy (part of Spain, Africa, Illyria, Pannonia, Belgica, Asia) with model using Lorica Squamata (lamellar armor).
Squamata was scale armour though. Pretty sure the Romans didn't use much lamellar, except maybe occasionally on cavalry and even that more in later times.