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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Grainger" data-source="post: 6415741" data-attributes="member: 6779234">Yeah, the earliest Roman warriors had no armour, then they fought as Hoplites, so may have had Hoplite style armour (linen).The earliest actual legionaries had a single (small) rectangular metal plate on their chests. Then they borrowed the idea of chain mail from the Celts, and the professional Roman army adopted this. Next, they went over to what people tend to think of as the classic Roman Legionary armour (which I always imagine is banded in D&D terms). Chain certainly existed side-by-side with this, and may have done so for some time.Later, some troops wore scale armour (which is presumably where D&D gets it from, as I don't think scale was used in medieval times). Eventually, Roman troops were more lightly armoured again, and ended up looking more like "dark age"/early medieval warriors.</blockquote>