07-14-2008, 07:31 PM
Quote:It seeems we are in agreement here. Mail won due to the economic/military crisis of the 3rd. c., and somehow the seg was never taken into mass production again, afterwards.Vortigern Studies:2ijyo749 Wrote:My own guesss about a seggie being less usable, apart from that cavalry seem to have shunned it from the start, is that the 3rd c. may have seeen circumstances that needed armour to be made as fast as possible, repaired in difficult circumstances (any smith would do) and that therefore only armour that could be made and repaired by anyone and worn by all the military would become the favorite. So yes, a seg would not have beeen unusable during the 4th c., but my guesss is that in most regions, production had stopped during the 3rd c. due to the factors above, and it never went into production again afterwards.No, I'd say that's mostly economics and logistics, as has also been discussed a couple times before. Mail won out because it was easier to produce and maintain in centralized areas for an expanding army. So not fashion, here, necessarily.
Call that fashion? OK, then that's fashion.
Quote:PS: Hey, Zulu pikemen with Coolus helmets and katanas, would that work?What, without any cow hide scutum? Nah, how would you be able to tell one impi apart from another? Wouldn't work. :wink:
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FECTIO Late Romans
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THE CAUSE OF WAR MUST BE JUST
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