u are slave of ur happiness

"happiness"

During the era of Macedonian supremacy post Alexander

australian aboriginees didnt <:slurpgon:583424900732157956>

@SideTracker only the rich ones though. Most people could not afford a metal breastplate. So that's not exactly a universal thing there.

inb4 muh myrmidons

@Tato evenn if that was true - and its not - you cant justify that being enslaved is a bad thing without any philosophical foundation and those foundations are not right or wrong.

I like how laminated cotton replaced the metal breastplate in greek army

Like legit the Seleucids even based their infatry after the roman pricipes and early legionaries @Uksio

Freedom of movement > stiff metal breastplate

^

dis

Yop

Tbf, thats why chainmail is so great

Also scalemail

Sec

freedom of movement isnt hard with metal

you just need overlapping plates

@Redneo i could explain it and i could make it right objectively but it will take time and i wont gain anything from it

Chainmale is indeed one of the leaps in armour tech

so yeah

instead of one stiff plate

imagine not fighting with just a shield and spear, lmao

with proper joints

easy to move in

clothes are cumbersome

https://youtu.be/qzTwBQniLSc

@Goddess Tyche the gladius was the best wepon k/d wise of the classical era

@Lucienne d'Anwyl greek breastplates were one-piece. You could not arch your back with it whatsoever

no gladius itself wasnt really effective without strategy behind it

based myceneans

the strategy was pretty simple

Wouldn't that be the sarissa but dunno I'm not making spreadsheets like an tist

keep them at bay with your sea of shields

Im not gonna lie, 3rd century legionaries look cool

and poke them with the pointy end

not really same tactics by then

@Tato suuuuure you could. no, there is no way to make anything objectivly right or wrong. Objectivly *within a given system* such as mathematics or if we are speaking about shoulds, ethical hedonism, both made up arbitrary for usefullness, yes. But objectivly, period, nno.

by the third century cavalry was a bigger and bigger part of roman tactics

as well as oher auxilia