Quote Originally Posted by Philipvs Vallindervs Calicvla
...and the resulting unit woulf have lower armour than the current legionary?
I've a kind of hard time accepting that claim, unless it is in the context of crappy metallurgy or somesuch (which would seem somewhat odd given that they were starting to make wide use of good solid iron helmets around that time...). Overlapping lames were what replaced mail and lamellar and such in quite a few corners of the world a while later, after all...