[Low-Tech Loadouts] Etruscan Warrior, 7th to 3rd century B.C.

Rasna · 08-04-2017, 05:37 PM

In all these loadouts, warriors don't wear any kind of protection for the arms (with the exception of the second loadout which features a linothorax with shoulder guards). Considering the fact that neck guards were very if not extremely rare, no wonder if chopping swords were so popular in early TL2 Italy, Spain and Greece.

Is there a precise reason for the abandonment of bronze armguards (pauldrons, rerebraces, vambraces, wrist guards) and cuisses during the Archaic Age? It was a matter of cost, practicality, both of them or another reason?

08-04-2017, 05:37 PM	#24
Rasna Join Date: Jun 2016 Location: Pisa, Tuscany, Italy	Re: [Low-Tech Loadouts] Etruscan Warrior, 7th to 3rd century B.C. In all these loadouts, warriors don't wear any kind of protection for the arms (with the exception of the second loadout which features a linothorax with shoulder guards). Considering the fact that neck guards were very if not extremely rare, no wonder if chopping swords were so popular in early TL2 Italy, Spain and Greece. Is there a precise reason for the abandonment of bronze armguards (pauldrons, rerebraces, vambraces, wrist guards) and cuisses during the Archaic Age? It was a matter of cost, practicality, both of them or another reason?