Roxolani, Cataphracts? Or imposters?

[Alanus]

I certainly hope "Belldozer" follows through far enough to hunt down Simonenko. In his book, Simonenko presents and pictures many types of armor worn by Alans and Sarmatians of the period, 1st cent. BC to AD 1st cent., and the styles include scale, lamellar, and even chainmail. The ideas emanating from Belldozer's professor, sound slightly constipated. Also, Michael has made a good point that Roxolani horses had to have been rugged and, most likely, larger than contemporaneous Roman horses. This is what we discovered when reviewing Berel 11 horses which averaged 14.2 to 14.3 hands high, compared to Roman examples at 13.5.