Have to bring up roman armour again

[KillerofFlowers]

All i have to say is idk why it hasnt bene added yet.

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Wouldn't a Roman clan be great? In my mind's eye I see Roman shield walls with spears behind them and horse-hair helmet centurions commanding the squads.

Roman shields are a lot like Rhodok board shields, only they a have more inward curve at the edges.

They would each carry a gladius double sided pointed shortsword. The 'Broad Shortsword' would suffice, pretty much.

They had a woolen tunic covered by a breastplate and significant,  characteristic shoulder plates. The "Red Corrazina" armor is pretty close excluding the shoulder plates and the lack of breastplate. Close enough, anyway.

Roman soldiers would wear leather sandals. Those don't exist at the moment.

The Roman helmet had a characteristic shape, being completely solid metal coming over the sides of the head to a rounded top and then a visor coming off the back. The bascinet, open sallet, barbutte, spiked helmet, morion, and most other non-face covering, un-coiffed solid metal helmets would work. Centurions and other ranks used barbuttes with horse hair plumes on them.

Romans used crossbows, so that's checked out.

I understand that there is a formerly popular module full of Roman models. Heres the link: http://www.mbrepository.com/file.php?id=2368

I really hope this is considered. I want to be a Roman!

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[Ozin]

Roman armor would be WAY out of our already loose time period. Just wouldn't fit.

[Diomedes]

I don't play a time period, I play an ahistorical video game.  cRPG doesn't purport to be 'set' anywhere anymore, except in the minds of the most hardcore roleplayers.  I don't see a good reason to not include Roman armours if (a) lots of people would like them (b) they're not gamebreaking top-quality gear and (c) they can be designed nicely.  I'm fine with almost any new equipment so long as it satisfies a-c.

[zagibu]

Not only do we need Roman gear, we also need other gay equipment, like Village People attire.

[XyNox]

I can understand both parties, the "history addicts" and "its a game" faction. In general Id say if something is fun then implement it as this is what a game is for. But roman armor is too extreme even for my taste. It slightly drags the game into a super smash brothers theme, where a medivel sword fighter can compete against a space age space marine or vice versa. Well kinda.

[HELM]

Yea, if we start going B.C. and early AD civilizations then people are going to demand Greek, Celtic and ancient Egyptian gear as well, amongst others. That's like a whole other Total war game lol.

[Diomedes]

I'd be fine with that^  It'd be pretty shoddy equipment next to Milanese Plate and Italian Swords but I'd be fine with it.

[Lactose_the_intolerant]

take the skoutatos armor, that's the closest you'll ever have!

[Diomedes]

take the skoutatos armor, that's the closest you'll ever have!

 

Looks cool!  Do you know of any full armour sets for earlier era gear?

[KillerofFlowers]

take the skoutatos armor, that's the closest you'll ever have!

I'm using the katafraktoi ATM but actual roman armour would be fun to use.

[B3RS3RK]

Yea, if we start going B.C. and early AD civilizations then people are going to demand Greek, Celtic and ancient Egyptian gear as well, amongst others. That's like a whole other Total war game lol.

And what would be wrong with that?Would actually be pretty awesome...

It´s not like cRPG is even remotely uniformal anway.

We have Mongols, Japanese,A lot of different Europeans, Turks, arabs...

Why not some earlier stuff, too?

Wouldnt really hurt the gian picture...

[Malaclypse]

Make the game bigger, more bloated, add more aesthetic choices before fixing bugs. +1

[HELM]

And what would be wrong with that?Would actually be pretty awesome...

It would be awesome, but I don't think the devs are up for such a colossal task..

Plus, I think their main focus atm is project strat anis

[FRANK_THE_TANK]

Roman armor would be WAY out of our already loose time period. Just wouldn't fit.

Or... would it?

[KillerofFlowers]

you can just pull the armours out of this mod...http://www.mbrepository.com/file.php?id=3485
and to the out of the time period debate about roman amour this game is already wide spread so just let it happen and move on Legio and Lost Legion have waited long enough lol