05-07-2016, 02:01 PM
And this is the whole point. Scales.
Small pieces are easier to produce.
And as technology moves forward we see quasi-plates and in the end plates itself.
It was the same way in medieval. We can see that before full plate armor was used, chainmail had ruled on battlefield, the same way it had ruled in the Roman times. But after a while it was used alogside with segmentata and squamata.
Again, I'm not saying, no one else could work with iron becasue we have iron plates already from 4 BC. I'm saying that Late Romans could work with iron much easier and cheaper than anyone centuries before and I'm backing this with everything I have said in my long post on the first page.
And the question from the first post remains.
How did Romans produce iron strips and scales on a mass scale without forging sings?
Small pieces are easier to produce.
And as technology moves forward we see quasi-plates and in the end plates itself.
It was the same way in medieval. We can see that before full plate armor was used, chainmail had ruled on battlefield, the same way it had ruled in the Roman times. But after a while it was used alogside with segmentata and squamata.
Again, I'm not saying, no one else could work with iron becasue we have iron plates already from 4 BC. I'm saying that Late Romans could work with iron much easier and cheaper than anyone centuries before and I'm backing this with everything I have said in my long post on the first page.
And the question from the first post remains.
How did Romans produce iron strips and scales on a mass scale without forging sings?
Damian
