Was the average roman soldier equipped like this? Seems like full plate would be expensive for a foot soldier. Or is this just a Hollywood meme?
Do you know what full plate is? I don't think you know what full plate is.
It never supplanted Hamata and after a while they dropped it again.
>>487146
The Roman state after Marian's reforms provided weapons and armor for every legionary, but I think chainmail was much more common than that.
>>487146
1) That's not full plate
2) That's the average roman legionary. The Roman army is also soldiered by a huge number of auxiliaries.
3) Rome had better infrastructure than shitpile Feudal European kingdoms to whom fielding a professional fighter is already something that was fuck expensive.
>>487146
The fighters were equipped with Segmentata but the average garrison unit or border patrol was equipped in Hamata.
>>487146
>Was the average roman soldier
Define average.
That design would belong to Imperial period, Camillian and Polybian troops were completely different
>Full plate
Kek
Anyway the average legionaire wore segmentata. The average any other kind of soldier wore a hamata (chain mail shirt)
>>487169
>1) That's not full plate
Agreed
>2) That's the average roman legionary.
Segmentata was only used in larger numbers in colder regions like britannia or germania, not to mention it was only there for aroud 200 years
>3) Rome had better infrastructure than shitpile Feudal European kingdoms to whom fielding a professional fighter is already something that was fuck expensive.
>Kights aren't full-time profesional soliders
>>487199
It took a whole village to support a single knight
>>487205
I doubt it was otherwise in different times, also looting and tournaments are also a thing, you know
>>487146
What he's wearing there is the Lorica Segmentata, it's actually pretty light and relatively cheap. Still it was used during the empire by mostly upper tier troops. During the time of Caesar they wore iron chain mail and mostly bronze helmets called gallias.
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>>487493
Looks Germanic as fuck
>>487572
Meanwhile the Marian Romans looked Gallic as fuck and the Polybians looked Greek as fuck.
>>487572
It likely was.
>>487493
Based late romans
>>487164
You mean segmenta? Hamata was pretty widespread.
>>487146
Only briefly in the later 1st century AD and early 2nd centuries AD. Plus, most of the army was made up of chainmail wearing auxiliaries armed with spears.
The Romans had early factories which pumped these out in the Empire. Gradually vanished because it was too expensive for a standing army that mostly fought bumfuck barbarians.
>>487493
Ma nigga.
>>487146
lorica segmentata was used for a very short amount of time (50 years or so) by only a few legions due to problems with maintaining and crafting such equipment
roman legionnaires used lorica hamata mostly
