Originally Posted by
Ahiga
It's a hell of a lot of speculation to be sure. Thankfully nomadic fashions tended towards a conservatism of change. I think Marcellinius or another ancient author does describe their dress, which if I recall right was described as short sleeves tunics of undyed wool (cannot depict as I do not have a long-armed Hun/Nomad skin to use) worn beneath long skirted kaftans, and that during winter they'd wear two fur coats (one with fur towards the skin, one with fur towards the outside). So in terms of dress I went with the usual nomadic kaftans - fur trimmed, or fur coated, or without any fur trim, in various natural hues and shades.
With armor it's even more speculation as except for two helmet finds in the region when the Huns were dominant (one of which I think was a looted Roman deir-el medina style helmet) and a reference or two to gilded armor we dunno what the deal is. In the interest of more appealing gameplay and aesthetics (unless one wished to play Huns who were 90-95% unarmored) I looked to the Avars to some extent for ideas and inspirations - hence the more asiatic style of armor. I don't think it's a stretch because - the Avars arrive a century later (and I doubt the East Asian/Central Asian influence on the western steppes was unknown until they came) and this type of lamellar is already known to the West (the Frankish/Alamanni lamellar finds, the Langobardi 6th century plate). And I'd say that this lamellar style is even less "East Asian" and more "Central Asian" as it seems a clear evolution from the earlier Central Asian panoply (the ones you see on EB/DEI era Saka).