I like Lorica Segmentata (LS) ...

[Samraat Mahendra Maurya]

Yeah, the LS fetish is quite funny. But what can we do, we poor school girls, against the diktats of fashion ?

I like this thread's title : I might print a shirt with it "I heart Lorica Segmentata" !

Seriously, LS is really a minor thing to me. I don't see why EB team should delay their work with details like that. It will still be possible to make a sub-mod with LS after EB2 is out.

About LS, the moderators moved the conversation from the FAQ to this, i had no involvement in the thread title, believe me i found it weird to!

[Yerevan]

About LS, the moderators moved the conversation from the FAQ to this, i had no involvement in the thread title, believe me i found it weird to!

lol I understood that, its a nasty trick they did to U ! Now you will be Mr I love Lorica Segmentat 4 eva ;-)

[Samraat Mahendra Maurya]

lol I understood that, its a nasty trick they did to U ! Now you will be Mr I love Lorica Segmentat 4 eva ;-)

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Don't Act like i didn't want that title

Lorica4eva!!!! HAHAHA

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[Yerevan]

lol, this last pic, its hilarious and kind of gay. This could be Barbie's boyfriend in a post-modern Roman empire.

[Samraat Mahendra Maurya]

lol, this last pic, its hilarious and kind of gay. This could be Barbie's boyfriend in a post-modern Roman empire.

I know, it was kind of daunting to post it at first. Very true though!

[Mayer]

I'm already pleased when my Hamata cohorts have different types of helmets/shields so they don't look so boring
sure more stuff like segmentata & squamata or distinctive legions would be cool but since the EB team focuses on many factions, it probably won't happen

[Samraat Mahendra Maurya]

Hardcore LS fan: What do you think Qvintvs Maximvs? All i need is a title
......
Hardcore LS fan: I was thinking along the lines of no Lorica and no Segmentata make Homer something something
Qvintvs Maximvs: Go crazy?
Hardcore LS fan: Don't mind if I DO!!!

[yuezhi]

Hardcore LS fan: What do you think Qvintvs Maximvs? All i need is a title
......
Hardcore LS fan: I was thinking along the lines of no Lorica and no Segmentata make Homer something something
Qvintvs Maximvs: Go crazy?
Hardcore LS fan: Don't mind if I DO!!!

QFT

[Achilles Lacedaemon]

Barby Boyfriend... Couldnt describe it better haahahaha!

[Hro3a]

http://books.google.cz/books?id=Kh-t...rmatia&f=false

For every smatasses here..read something before you say something...

[yuezhi]

For every smatasses here..read something before you say something...

Um, you'd look more legit if you'd at least comply to your own statement.

[Spartan198]

what is so especial with lorica anyway ? it was a very bad armor compared to mail and was used by a very short time period.

It's the quintessential Roman armor and the first thing that comes to mind when the average person thinks of a Roman soldier. Same as with the Corinthian helmet and Greek hoplites.

[k/t]

"It's the quintessential Roman armor"

No, it isn't.

"when the average person thinks of a Roman soldier"

So because the average person is stupid and uninformed, the team should pander to that?

Nay, I say unto thee, nay.

Let the "average person" make a submod in order to make the game match his mediocrity.

[Casual Tactician]

It's the quintessential Roman armor and the first thing that comes to mind when the average person thinks of a Roman soldier. Same as with the Corinthian helmet and Greek hoplites.

I'm astonished that this thread isn't closed yet. Didn't historians and the EB team mention, that the LS wasn't (esp. in EB2's timeframe) the standard equipment of Roman soldiers?!

If average persons think of the LS the be the "quintessential Roman armor" then that's the way it is, but it doesn't prove anything. I hope EB2 won't be a mod that chums up with average believes.

[k/t]

"Didn't historians and the EB team mention"

Many times. But the "average persons" are numerous and they don't bother to read. They just post.

[Ἀπολλόδοτος Α΄ ὁ Σωτήρ]

"It's the quintessential Roman armor"

No, it isn't.

"when the average person thinks of a Roman soldier"

So because the average person is stupid and uninformed, the team should pander to that?

Nay, I say unto thee, nay.

Let the "average person" make a submod in order to make the game match his mediocrity.

Of course. Give us Cleopatra dressed as if she lived in 800 BC Egypt and Julius Caesar wearing lorica segmentata. Doesn't matter that they lived more than 200 years after the EB start date. Rome 2 did that and look how "great" it turned out. This thread makes no sense and it should be closed.

[yuezhi]

I say if it hadn't been split from the FAQ then this would have been buried and stayed that way.

[yuezhi]

It wasn't popular within the time of EB 2, but if DBM ends 170AD, i think by then it would be quite popular

I've failed to find anyone or any documentation that supports your opinion.
To the treasury and others working a desk job, not to mention the blacksmiths, of course it'd be popular.
For the military, how do you explain hamata outlasting an item that failed to see the end of the western Romans?

[Sint]

It wasn't popular within the time of EB 2, but if DBM ends 170AD, i think by then it would be quite popular

It wasn't never more "popular" than mail or scale.

[naq]

It's the Trajan's Column that sit right in the middle of Rome being the source of depiction for Roman military for a long time. And it is full of LS so the image sticked.