[LT] Brigandine TL question

[Icelander]

Originally Posted by mhd

I would've thought that a Roman parellel would probably be a TL worst case…

Why?

They were at TL5 in architecture and civil engineering and regarded engineering as a prestitious and sensible career path. They had TL4 metallurgy and TL3 medicine. As far as administrative methods are technologies, I'd call them TL4 there too.

In many ways, if the political developments from the Roman Republic on had been different, it would have been rather plausible for Rome to reach solid TL4overall with many TL5 elements within a few generations.