Re: lorica segmentata
Segmentata has only a short use chronology, and is also restricted to a rather small part of the Roman army from what we can tell. It was, in all estimation, a rather bad form of protection. Easily susceptible to missile fire, blunt force trauma, etc, and is notoriously difficult to fabricate (you can't just order sheet metal in the ancient world).
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