Armour Flexibility

[Dan Howard]

Irrelevant since today the proportional cost of the materials is much much lower than it has ever been in the past.

I did, and it would cost ~1,200 euros for a steel riveted chain mail hauberk + hood & leggins, where'as a full set of steel plate armour (incl. a salad helmet) would cost me ~5,000 euros.

We already covered this. Those links are imported from India and are nothing like historical mail. If you want mail that even remootely resembles museum samples it will cost 3-4 times that much.

First of all metallurgic analysises of roman ferrous plate and chain mail have shown that Roman ferrous plate usually was of higher quality iron (even steel) than the sampled chain mail.

Cite?

The manufacture of ferrous plate demands skilled smiths as-well as an advanced infrastructure to achieve in a mass scale, it couldn't be left to slave labour.

The advanced infrastructure significantly decreases the cost of the product.