Quote:Iron, possibly steel. The time frame should be about equivalent to 500-1000 AD, not ancient period. Also, I chose their armor preferences on the idea that it'd be too easy if they were completely Greek - so, something about like Japanese or Byzantine gear, though probably styled differently.
1. What type of armor? Bronze or iron? Possibly even armor like the lorica segmantata?
Quote:A unit good enough to be chosen for this mission would; on a larger scale, Islanders'd vary according to experience, level of training, etc - a crapshoot depending on what sort of unit you were talking about it. The Old Empire knew it; the successor kingdoms know it; the Riders might have known it if their infantry were more than skirmishers and rabble-in-arms.
Level of training? Do they know the cadenced beat? (Hup, two, three, four ) Which means that do they know how to march in formation as a single cohesive unit, or are they just a gaggle? As for as i know, only two classical armies used he cadenced beat...the late republic to early imperial romans and the Spartans.
The River Kingdom's armor is almost exactly the same design the Empire used - chestplate, helmet, and sixteen linked half-cylinders of varying sizes over a padded undergarmet and held in place by leather straps. What it's made out of is laminated wood with steel strips reinforcing the outside... well, the helmet's completely metal. The only change they've made is extending the rerebraces rather than using seperate shoulder-guards; a choice made because it lets them raise their arms over the head and their founding general brought back a useful innovation from the backward, isolated islands he had been assigned to - the atlatl.
Or, as he thought of it, a way to give a javelin the range of an arrow and more striking power than either. And, since a soldier in the field who was getting his darts from the supply train didn't need to worry about making the things, that was pretty much the size of it.
Quote:A-yup, that was the inspiration. These critters are a lot smaller, though - their masters were walking because, well, five hundred pounds per dog means that an adult human will have them carrying about a third their own weight on their back, in the middle of a fight. Needless to say, Islander cavalry is essentially unarmored.
You channelling Bellevue? If you got a cultivated plant to produces legumes or something close to soya, you got a protein substitute there. Soy mash, mixed with offal.
The River Kingdom gets around the weight problem by using chariots, which works because of their terrain.
Quote:My sources disagree. Seriously; full plate weighs, what, forty, fifty pounds? No more than a large hiking pack, and much more conveniently distributed. Granted, wearing it for a long-distance march in what's supposed to be friendly territory is a little odd, but that's a matter of psychological warfare - 'We're the Royal Guard. We're so tough this doesn't bother us. How do you think you rate?'.
Can't be full plate armor, it's be too tough to walk around. Half-armor, I can see.
Quote:They're mixed in with the boarders; their equipment isn't different enough to tell easily at a distance.
BTW, where are the missle troops for this merry bunch? You got infantry and you got cavalry...no way they'v forgotten the light troops.
Ja, -n
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