Quote Originally Posted by Philipvs Vallindervs Calicvla
At no point do three layers overlap, in fact two layers barely overlap, if it were otherwise the armour would lose its remaining flexability.
Oh ? What's there to keep them from simply sliding over one another (to a certain degree) as was the standard for laminated armour from the start to the finish ? Not that a hip-lenght cuirass like that needs to be particularly flexible anyway.

I believe javalins will go through Gothic plate, as will longbow arrows at 20 paces and the longbow is not the most powerful of bows. In any case Gothic plate is steel Lorica Segmentata is iron
"Gothic" plate would mean high-end Late Medieval full plate, I assume. Let's just say that by that point men-at-arms had abandoned shields as unnecessary baggage and heavy steel-stave crossbows were around the only things that could penetrate even lower-quality plate at any real distance with any real degree of reliability. Longbows, one of the catalysts for the developement of the fully articulated plate, were totally insufficient except at virtually point-blank ranges (with the obvious implications to the continued well-being of the archers) which is doubtless one reason they started falling by the wayside, although composite bows seem to still have been reasonably effective. Or at least those of the Ottomans seem to have accounted for quite a few fully armoured men in galley fights.