A Question About Triarii Helmets.

[Titus Marcellus Scato]

Thanks for the info. now, if I might add a question... what's the point of that? Ok, corinthian helmat had a history, history even in mythology sometime represented on mosaic or potery... well, what's the point to make a complicated imitation instead of wearing the original (maybe with modification, to enhence the hearing and the view, as we know/it is said that hearing was very reduces with a corinthian on the head...

Corinthian helmets, although not practical anymore, were still fashionable. (Hey, they're still fashionable now, when EB was in production a lot of fans complained about their favourite Spartans not having Corinthian helmets anymore, like they had in vanilla RTW.)

Take a Corinthian helmet and cut holes for the ears, you improve hearing a lot, and it still looks good. Make the eyeholes a lot larger, you can see a lot better, and it still looks more or less OK, although the eyeholes no longer appear black, so the effect is much less scary. But, the biggest change was to the mouth and nose area. Cut away the mouth and nose covering so you can actually breathe properly (i.e you are able to pant heavily after very strenuous exertion without wanting to tilt your helmet away from your face) - and hey, it doesn't look like a Corinthian helmet anymore. So that's the biggest problem.

A fake tilted-back Corinthian that lets you breathe properly looks better and more fashionable, while still remaining practical, than a real, improved Corinthian with too much of the front cut away.