08-26-2016, 07:26 PM
I'm not discussing effectiveness of armor, I'm discussing manufacturer. Many tens of thousands of rivetted rings is harder to produce than pressed and hammered iron plates attached by leather straps. Mail was harder to make, and yet at a time you keep insisting was so bad the Romans switched to using the harder to make, more time consuming, more expensive armor, over the cheap munitions grade stuff they previously used. This is a hole in your theory, big enough to fly a plane through.
In addition, you asserted earlier that pila were difficult to make. That also isn't true. They weren't hard to make, they weren't difficult to throw as they were intended (within 20 meters). The various plagues of the Late Roman Empire have nothing to do with the pila's disappearance, simply put they switched tactics and switched weapons largely for cultural and practical reasons.
In addition, you asserted earlier that pila were difficult to make. That also isn't true. They weren't hard to make, they weren't difficult to throw as they were intended (within 20 meters). The various plagues of the Late Roman Empire have nothing to do with the pila's disappearance, simply put they switched tactics and switched weapons largely for cultural and practical reasons.
