08-21-2010, 01:30 AM
Quote:Paullus Scipio wrote: Armour studies, even hypothetical ones, should not begin from a premise of how much is necessary to totally defeat contemporary attacking weapons....
Excellent point!
Even modern body armor is not impervious to all calibre of rifles/handguns etc. The 'holy grail' of armor is the perfect balance between weight and protection and one will always be sacrificed for the other, I agree that it is a mistake to assume that any of the ancient armor types were absolutely effective against missle, sword or spear, especially since we know they were not.
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Mark Hayes
"The men who once dwelled beneath the crags of Mt Helicon, the broad land of Thespiae now boasts of their courage"
Philiades
"So now I meet my doom. Let me at least sell my life dearly and have a not inglorius end, after some feat of arms that shall come to the ears of generations still unborn"
Hektor, the Iliad
Mark Hayes
"The men who once dwelled beneath the crags of Mt Helicon, the broad land of Thespiae now boasts of their courage"
Philiades
"So now I meet my doom. Let me at least sell my life dearly and have a not inglorius end, after some feat of arms that shall come to the ears of generations still unborn"
Hektor, the Iliad
