Muscle Armor effectiveness

[Urselius]

I think one of the drawbacks of a muscle cuirass has been highlighted, the need for it to fit the wearer. To make 10 or 50 for rich officers is no great problem, to make 10,000 individually fitted cuirasses for the rank and file is not really feasible. It is much more reasonable to mass-manufacture mail or scale coats, which are more flexible for fitting a variety of physiques.