06-09-2013, 06:10 PM
I state that, even today, NATO would not be able to equip 300.000 men with kevlar armors!
Nobody on Earth (and when I write nobody I mean nobody) was even able to equip 300.000 men with iron armors! Because this It's simply not possible!
Few tens thousands men during the middle age means nothing compared to 300.000 men during the Antiquity.
The numbers are an impassable obstacle for the Fantasy tale about the Roman Army clad in iron!
Even when the public fabricae started their activity, they had to produce weapons, as swords and spears, arrows and shields, from what we know even the numbers of the 'Loricaria' are not so large (look at the Notitia....).
Anyway I don't pretend to say that the Romans didn't use iron mails or segmented armors, but I find almost insulting my intellect stating that the organic body protections of many different materials like padded felt, linen and leather, weren't also widely used.
In the end I think that the guys of Ars Dimicandi are doing a wonderful and serious work with the help of historians and archologists, and their point of view has to be respected (even if not condivided.) and I find it more realistic than the dreamworld of the Roman Ironclad Army!
So again use Google and read their work it's intersting and serious.
Here the link to the page of Ars Dimicandi:
http://www.arsdimicandi.net/ad_1_0000c6.htm
I end up with this famous quote (from the site of A.D.), from the 'De Bello Civilis' I hope you'll be able to translate two lines of Latin dear hamata experts!
"'omnes fere milites aut ex coactis aut ex centonibus aut ex coriis tunicas aut tegimenta fecerant quibus tela vitarent'
Anyway the words for you, dear friends, are: Cento, Coactilia, and Coriis tegimenta......meditate good people, meditate! ;-)
Nobody on Earth (and when I write nobody I mean nobody) was even able to equip 300.000 men with iron armors! Because this It's simply not possible!
Few tens thousands men during the middle age means nothing compared to 300.000 men during the Antiquity.
The numbers are an impassable obstacle for the Fantasy tale about the Roman Army clad in iron!
Even when the public fabricae started their activity, they had to produce weapons, as swords and spears, arrows and shields, from what we know even the numbers of the 'Loricaria' are not so large (look at the Notitia....).
Anyway I don't pretend to say that the Romans didn't use iron mails or segmented armors, but I find almost insulting my intellect stating that the organic body protections of many different materials like padded felt, linen and leather, weren't also widely used.
In the end I think that the guys of Ars Dimicandi are doing a wonderful and serious work with the help of historians and archologists, and their point of view has to be respected (even if not condivided.) and I find it more realistic than the dreamworld of the Roman Ironclad Army!
So again use Google and read their work it's intersting and serious.
Here the link to the page of Ars Dimicandi:
http://www.arsdimicandi.net/ad_1_0000c6.htm
I end up with this famous quote (from the site of A.D.), from the 'De Bello Civilis' I hope you'll be able to translate two lines of Latin dear hamata experts!
"'omnes fere milites aut ex coactis aut ex centonibus aut ex coriis tunicas aut tegimenta fecerant quibus tela vitarent'
Anyway the words for you, dear friends, are: Cento, Coactilia, and Coriis tegimenta......meditate good people, meditate! ;-)
