Knight vs. Samurai

Your word against a college professor who research's these things and reads actual roman military documents. also this thread is about knight vs. samurai not about the roman army, please, please go make your own thread. also the romans may have excepted shorter soldiers, provided they had enough brawn to make up for it, and medieval armor is made for men who just under six feet or who were six five. also those bones may not be legionnaires, they could be camp followers, or mabye people exhumed the soldiers remains and buried someone else there, and the soldiers actual remains got thrown into the tiber not to mention the fact that romans cremated the corpses   

Edited by Count Belisarius - 22-Nov-2008 at 21:53

Yet the fact remains that real battle armor was built for guys who were six five. and you have given me no sources whatsoever, and this thread is about Knight vs. samurai, not about how tall medieval people were, people like you take one phrase and run with it ruining perfectly good threads. please go start your own thread.    

Originally posted by Count Belisarius Your word against a college professor who research's these things and reads actual roman military documents. also this thread is about knight vs. samurai not about the roman army, please, please go make your own thread. also the romans may have excepted shorter soldiers, provided they had enough brawn to make up for it, and medieval armor is made for men who just under six feet or who were six five. also those bones may not be legionnaires, they could be camp followers, or mabye people exhumed the soldiers remains and buried someone else there, and the soldiers actual remains got thrown into the tiber

All I asked for was the page? I have the book of this Prefessor, the exact book you brought up. Can you please tell me, I assume it's not a secret and I am interested for the reasons I said above.

Yet the fact remains that medieval armor is made for men who were just under six feet, or six five.

Originally posted by Count Belisarius The complete roman army, by Adrian Goldsworthy

Edited by gcle2003 - 29-Jul-2008 at 11:16

Before the "knight" will make a choice of weapons and armor the samurai will be too old to fight.

Originally posted by Cezar Before the "knight" will make a choice of weapons and armor the samurai will be too old to fight. http://www.thehaca.com/essays/knightvs.htm

I believe that the source of the armor was made for 6'5'' people may be the link that Cezar shared with us. I found that discussed there, immediately following the statement that most Europeans at the time were much shorter than that.

Originally posted by Count Belisarius Most, as in the peasants who wern't wealthy enough to afford meat

Peasants were wealthy enough to keep chickens, pigs and cows for meat.

Originally posted by Count Belisarius Yeah and guess who got the lions share? also they had to pay taxes.

Excuuuse me?!