Praetorian Guardsman wanted! (or a trooper of the ESA...)

[Narukami]

Jasper, Maybe teseguys can help????
http://www.cohors-praetoria.eu/
Vale

Aren't they a bit of the 'Gladiator' type? I mean, blackened armour, black leather subarmalis, very dark tunic....

Interesting site -- clearly they take their work very seriously and generally it looks very good ... except for that black armor.

I know of no evidence that the Praetorians wore black armor. The idea that Black is the elite color of choice seems, to me, to be a rather modern concept. (No doubt some armed force in the ancient world used black, but the Romans of the Republic or early Principate?)

Unfortunately I do not read German, so I can not tell -- Do they give any evidence to justify the color of their armor?

:?

Narukami