Polybius, horse archers arrows, roman armour, oh my.

[Gaius Julius Caesar]

The metallurgical properties are irrelevant compared to all the other problems with Indian mail. If you want to shoot arrows at it, please don't waste bandwith posting your results here. It will tell us nothing about how Roman mail might have performed.

So, aside from Eriks mail, where do you propose one find Roman mail? The exact composition metalurgically of which is?

I have seen quite a bit of Roman mail, as close as I am allowed, and can't see too much to say why it would have performed differently. Some of the joining rivets and riveted rings look
even more frail that the sets of Indian mail I own.

Could you possibly list all the many faults of the Indian mail, and then perhaps forward me a check so I can afford to waste some of Eriks work as target practice? :wink: