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Imperator-Zor — Low Cost Scale Armor
Published: 2014-06-22 07:02:22 +0000 UTC; Views: 3919; Favourites: 11; Downloads: 8
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This is a suit of low cost scale armor and associated helmet, issued to peasant levies and militia by a lord who understands that armored troops tend to last a fair bit longer than unarmored ones and have better morale, but did not want to pay a lot of money for it at a time when there was not much surplus stuff lying around. Mail required the forging of thousands of individual links and took a long time to yield even a single vest, plate required skilled armorers who charged a fortune. This design could be made by a simple village smith and a weaver and her son. The vest was constructed as such: A fairly large number of crude steel plates were beaten out on an anvil, had holes punched into their corners with a spike and then were sewn onto a cloth vest padded with straw. The helmet had a main form made of steel, though some cloth and steel plate neck guard was added to the back. In general this armor is effective, if not exemplary and it's gaps are weak points. Still, to a peasant halberdier or handgonner going up against heavy cavalry its much better than nothing.(Also, thanks for 50,000 page views)
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This is not scale. This would be a coat of plates. It is somewhat similar to the Visby coat or a brigandine.
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It might be better to refer to real history in this case. There was armor that matches your description, but it doesn't necessarily look like this. The plates overlapped a bit better. Also, hand me down armor was common amongst poor soldiers, so getting a mail hauberk may have not been too hard. If you're doing this for its own sake, then ignore what I'm saying, but it sounds like you're doing some world building to me.
Here's a link of replicas of armor found on militia soldiers fighting in 1361: www.hoashantverk.se/hantverk/h…
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This is not supposed to be directly drawn/inspired by any real world civilization save for in broad strokes.
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I like it. The sheer practicability of it may have a symbolic element as well. One's armor may have been literally made for him by her wife/family, his cousin smith, etc. At such ages, weaving was a domestic activity, after all. So, a fair degree of customizing could be made to remind the levy soldier what's he fighting for.
So, in a game like Total War, I would make such levies with higher morale than any other faction equivalent.
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