Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-50.48.242.249-20170203002615/@comment-26553378-20170203122051

there's literally one way this would work, lesser armor (such as bronze) was indeed common, and would likely have had a symbol of the nation quickly scrawled or imprinted onto front and back, this would likely have also been done with removable ones for mercenaries.

following that logic you could implement something such as this without too much problem with lore/logic.