Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-26065088-20170428203828/@comment-25931200-20170502142051

LordArvedui wrote:

Samoja1 wrote: May i just point out that even Romans had a capability to make Plate armor, they choose not to, because tradeoff was not worth it in the wars they fought, plate is heavy, and expensive, and hard to repair in the field, not to mention that it gets really hot in there, so if your opponent does not use weapons that can go trough mail armor even if you can make plate you may choose not to, it aint so clear cut "plate beats mail", while true enough plate armor is better then mail in almost every way protection wise before the development of gunpowder we see various cultures repeatedly eveloping plate, and then a century or so later go back to mail, there has to be a reason for that. Well actually, the Romans also had used layered plate, which wasn't as protective as plate but not as heavy and a bit better than chain mail, and it is the roman armor I know and love. You are thinking of iconic lorica segmentata, but trough most of it´s history rome used chain armor lorica hamata, and they went back to it in late empire.