12-09-2006, 10:01 AM
Quote:Vortigern can you please comment why are the helmets incorrect? what type of a helmet should it be? same with the tunic, and the scabbardHelmets: Intercisa helmets but extremely simplified here, with wrong neck plates.
Shield: not all Late Roman troops in Britain were members of the Secunda Britones!
Swords: to big cross-guard, no long spatha blades.
Baldrics: too wide, look like 3rd c. types.
Scabbards: the artist looked at a Deepeeka one, probably.
Trousers: I did not comment on that earlier, but they wear baggy trousers instead of close-fitting ones.
Tunics: Wide sleeves - half-sleeved?? With a long-sleeved tunic underneath? Looks like a Viking! The decoraction pattern is also non-Roman, with odd shapes and horizontal stripes across the arm.
And the Late Roman army did not wear uniforms with all the men similarly dressed! that's a modernism that we can't seem to get rid off - sure guv'nor, they were all soldiers, right? So they all wear the same sweater, right? I blame Asterix. :twisted:
Robert Vermaat
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MODERATOR
FECTIO Late Romans
THE CAUSE OF WAR MUST BE JUST
(Maurikios-Strategikon, book VIII.2: Maxim 12)
