Quote Originally Posted by Watchman
You do know that all-iron cuirasses could be made to look like honest-to-Gawd linothoraxes for example...? I would imagine it wouldn't be terribly difficult to give a scale cuirass a similar "cut" and an outer layer of textile either.
They could, but I think there would be found many more traces of lamellar and scale armour in Seleucid contexts, then. I would also expect to see some representational evidence show scale-like texture, like that seen on many Roman-era stelai. But why would they cover scale or lamellar in linen or leather? Seems rather redundant to me, though I guess they may have done it.

Outta curiosity, as I know very little of these things, how much direct archeological evidence do we have of the armament of Hellenic kataphraktoi and their horses anyway ?
There is the largely well-preserved suit of cataphract armour from c. 150 BC from Ai Khanoum, which includes lamellar and scale. There are also late Hellenistic images of Indo-Saka kings wearing lamellar armour, which probably would have influenced local Bactrian cavalrymen.

Well FY, I doubt he makes an appearance. People can have whatever opinions they want of it, and he used to be around out here a good deal more, but he has had it with the public firing squads. We're happy to get his time on unit creation and recruitment issues, but he has had to drop other responsibilities inside the mod team because of constraints on his time while trying to finish his degree, so it's not just replying to public threads that he doesn't have the time or energy for currently. One other interesting tidbit - I don't think he has ever played the mod.
I'd very much like to hear from him, but if he can't come around, does anyone else know his reasoning for some of the above? Did he provide the team with archaeological evidence or even references for some of the above stuff?