Quote Originally Posted by Watchman
Wanted to preserve "that original Hellenic look" perhaps ? Damned if I know why Philip II had that iron cuirass made out like a linothorax either. Or why at one period of the Renaissance fancy looks were so important suits of full plate were made to mimic the "puffed and slashed" style of garment. Or Carl X wears a blatant imitation of Antique generals' breastplate and sash in one portait I've seen.

Fashion. It doesn't have to make any sense.
Could be, but when you consider the representational and archaeological evidence together, it seems to point in the general direction of making use of little or no scale or lamellar armour amongst the non-cataphract troops.

That's not too much then. How about horse bards ?
Unfortunately not much at all. Some of the pieces of armour from the Ai Khanoum arsenal are thought to maybe be part of some horse armour, but those are only very fractional and scattered pieces. I would lean towards horse barding being made of scales, though.