Subarmalis or gambeson?

[Flavivs Aetivs]

Are you telling meg that before late antiquity soldiers were rarely hit in the body? Also I just cannot think of a reason, why you would get hit in the body more in the medieval times.

Soldiers were rarely hit in the body period. Even in the Dark-Age Chesterfield battlefield find all the wounds were to the extremeties or head, with none to the torso and only 1 to the thighs.

Also, I was implying that since the Spatha has more reach, you can get over and around someone's big shield with it to cut them in the body.