It is very shiny.
Re: lorica segmentata i wish!!!!
It is very shiny.
Re: lorica segmentata i wish!!!!
which one offered better protection in terms of slashing, puncture or overall protection?
Last edited by Iasonis; 06-20-2007 at 07:12.
Re: lorica segmentata i wish!!!!
Padded mail. LS was good against blunt trauma.
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Re: lorica segmentata i wish!!!!
My bet's on the LS. Smooth overlapping iron plates aren't exactly the easiest thing to get a blade or tip through (compare to the certain inherent issues mail has with the pointy stuff), and ought to diffuse blunt trauma pretty well - the same general principle scale and lamellar works by, just with bigger single pieces.
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So why is padded mail btter then?
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I'm pretty sure LS (like about any and all metal armour) was worn over some form of padding, unless the wearer was into hardcore masochism anyway. Didn't the Romans have a specific name for their standard pattern of such garments ?
And who said padded mail (not that there was much other kind anyway) was better ? Laminate armour was in many cases a developement that replaced designs like mail and lamellar...
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Well, I've seen it said severla times in this forum, and above it says that LS units would have lower armour than LH.
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