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Originally Posted by CarrionPeacock
As far as I know, the Mail and Plate armor is a mail with many small plates, like a scale armor with mail backing instead of cloth or leather
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Not really. Mail-and-plate is like lamellar except that the plates are connected with metal rings instead of lacing. There is no backing. It was a clever way to eliminate a lot of the problems inherent in lamellar.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mail_and_plate_armour
What you are thinking of is Roman. It consists of small scales integrated into a mail backing. It is often erroneously called
lorica plumata but a more accurate term is
lorica hamata squamataque. The Loadouts book (p.23) has stats for it.
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