Roman Armor

[Anastasios Helios]

I'm not much into the Romans but i'm curious to when did Roman armor change to the imperial style with plate armor? Also, why is there none in EB?

[Dyabedes of Aphrodisias]

The lorica segmentata you speak of appeared around 6 AD I believe, and only began being widespread around 30(?) years later. This just so happens to be just after EB's time frame, and thus was not included.

[abou]

[Centurio Nixalsverdrus]

A lorica segmentata thread finally.

[Thaatu]

Quick! Spam before it gets closed!

[geala]

If you like...

Recently I had to notice that the Romans invented segmented armour already in the early 3rd c. BC! I was told that by a friend who knows someone who knows the kitchen boy of a very famous archeologican. He told him that this man has found a contemporary military manual of about 272 BC (in a secret papal library) which shows an armour which looks exactly like Corbridge type A armour! And in the manual the armour is named "lorica segmentata", exactly the name given to it by modern researchers! Isn't it wonderful? The theory why it is not shown in the art for a long time is apodictic: the early artists were not able to catch the beauty of the cuirass so the artistic convention spread not to show it at all. Unfortunately the manual was destroyed by cleaning personal before it could be published or even copied.

Nevertheless I demand the introduction of lorica segmentata into EB as the only Roman armour from the beginning.