Organic Armours

>>1676473
Leather.
Rattan
Wood.
Cloth

/thread,

>>1676473
What's wrong with a leather 'linothorax' it would be far cheaper than linen (in materials and labour-hours) and have a similar protective ability.

>>1676473
It was made out of armour
/thread

>>1676473
>Let's take, the linothorax. Do we know how exactly it was made? Padded cloth? Glued cloth? Lindybeige's stupid leather hypothesis?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linothorax

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There's also the mystery of Celtic organic armour. Here we have a statue of a Celtic warrior who is wearing some sort of cuirass. We have no idea what it would've been made from.

The Total War devs actually interpreted this as a form of leather armour, but when I look at the lines throughout it, I'm thinking those could represent stitches, which would imply a sort of gambeson-type construction.

>>1676473
Linothorax is a myth

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>>1676494
Here we have the TW devs' interpretation, from an old devblog.

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>>1676473
My all times favourite, crocodile skin armour.
Sadly it was probably just for show and not for combat

>>1676473

Linothorax m80, its made of linen

>>1676473

The fuck do you think iron and ores like copper comes from? Out of the ground

>>1676483
>leather
>cheaper than linen
no

Boiled and then hardened leather plaques stiched together.

>>1676483
No and no.

Consider suicide.

>>1677471
Leather was incredibly fucking expensive compared to textiles and is no more protective. No.

>not mentioning paper
Used by samurai i think. And later on some inmates lmao.

>>1677934

Chinese, not samurai.

i don't know if it can even be called paper when it's been layered and pressed to the point it's as hard as wood again.