Linothorax again

[Dan Howard]

Brigandines and Coats of Plates were made by attaching overlapping plates to the inside of a foundation garment (usually canvass). The bare plates would rest against whatever arming garment was worn underneath. These types of armour had no liner since the action of the plates would tear it out. The same thing would happen if you tried covering scale armour with cloth. I'm not sure what you mean by "interconnected" but if the scales don't overlap (e.g. "Braveheart" armour) then they would make pretty lousy armour. They would lose a lot of strength (since a single plate must take the full force of a blow and the impact will be transmitted directly through to the wearer rather than being dispersed among the surrounding plates) and there would be too many gaps.