Plus, hand wraps look cool and that is always a consideration when making any kind of game art.įantastic stuff! Very well done. There is apparently evidence that Romans wore puttees on their legs, and that Greek and Roman boxers wore wraps around their arms, so it is not farfetched to imagine the soldiers would wrap them around their arms and hands as well. In any case, wraps of fabric for the arms were a natural choice for my light armour set, as a cheap alternative to the segmented Manica gauntlet.

Did Romans wear mittens that have since long disintegrated? I don't know. It too is not mentioned in any sources I have read, but there is no doubt in my mind that at least some of those men who would have to do manual labour in the Northern mountains would have worn something on the hands. Therefore, I had to make the officer's gauntlets extra 'Roman' through adding classic scenes or Greek-style ornament to its design.Īnother issue was that I could not figure out what Roman soldiers wore on their hands. I tried to find out what kind of gauntlets the Greeks wore, since the officers of Rome would have certainly worn the same, but my Greek sources are silent on this matter too.

In movies you often see golden or bronze bracelets, more jewellery than armour. However, I found no evidence whatsoever for what officers would have worn. The only armour piece for the arm that keeps coming back in historical sources is the segmented manica armour worn by the heavy infantry, supposedly only on the sword hand (probably because the other hand was being protected by the scutum shield).

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