light spear balance (vs. swords) in 1.2

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Iron mail.

Known but not adopted by the Chinese.

Composite bows.

Do you really want to get me started into Nomadic Cavalry and styles employed by the Chinese?

Longswords.

Huh, so the Romans did not use longswords in a large scale. Either because they found to tactical application to it, or because they "didn't know it"... You know where my money is.

Highly advanced artillery.

LOLWUT?

Teh Wiki, your fastest source evah, knows it:

The Chinese also developed catapults and siege crossbows very early. The earliest documented occurrence of ancient siege artillery pieces in China was the levered principled traction catapult and an 8 feet (2.4 m) high siege crossbow from the Mozi (Mo Jing), a Mohist text written during the 3rd - 4th century B.C by followers of Mozi who founded the Mohist school of thought during the late Spring and Autumn Period and the early Warring States period. Much of what we now know of the siege technology of the time came to us from Books 14 and 15 (Chapters 52 to 71) on siege warfare from the Mo Jing. Recorded and preserved on bamboo strips, much of the text is unfortunately extremely corrupted now. However, despite the heavy fragmentation, Mohist diligence and attention to details which set Mo Jing apart from other works, ensured that highly descriptive details of the workings of mechanical devices like Cloud Ladders, Rotating Arcuballistas and Levered Catapults, records of siege techniques and usage of siege weaponry can still be found.[1]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Militar...ary_technology

Don't get me started on fortress work: Moh-Ti also wrote about highly advanced defensive fortifications.

And, oh, IIRC the Chinese had only rather recently gotten onto the iron bandwagon, almost a millenia or half after western Eurasia.

Don't know it... Where is the source?

And the western Eurasians had *abandoned* lamellar a few centuries earlier presumably for no other reason than not having liked it and junk.

Lamellar junk...? LOL I know who the troll is. The Romans adopted a fairly similar armour with the Segmentata, and it was still inferior to your average lamellar cuirass, which BTW did not reach Europe yet unless you could provide your source again.