A History of Lamellar and Scale Armour in the West

[Dan Howard]

I have to agree with mark george here, Byzantine lamellar was much better

How do you know this? AFAIK we don't have any surviving examples and the available reconstructions are based on pretty flimsy evidence. There are only two ways to judge the effectiveness of historical armour - either you physically test a replica of an existing example or you surmise its effectiveness from eye witness accounts of battles.