maybe it has to do with the government changing to picking up the tab for the equipment? If your buying to save your own skin, you would want the best. If your buying for someone else...
Re: EB2's armor
maybe it has to do with the government changing to picking up the tab for the equipment? If your buying to save your own skin, you would want the best. If your buying for someone else...
Re: EB2's armor
Post marius the troop equipment received no love from the senate for sure as they knew legionaries could be turned against them and generals themselves had to run their legions like a business to avoid getting bankrupt...
Who knows, in the future we might find that some generals issued leather or linen armour to part of their legions for the sake of cost effectiveness (or... what was used under the scales in the lorica squamata to keep them together?)
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Re: EB2's armor
In terms of armor, Lorica Segmentata is worse than mail. More expensive, harder to maintain, and not as protective.
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