r/RealisticArmory

I’m not gonna go into a whole rant about it, but the inclusion of Iron-Age armor in the Odyssey is simply sloppy writing and thinking in terms of world-building.

People can and will complain about this, but I just think the modern armor was meant to look cool and not making sense in any real way.

In cases where the people inhabiting the world have some degree of skill with metallurgy, change was gradual. The Bronze Age was ending, yeah, but that’s not like a light 💡 flicked on and suddenly everyone was using iron by preference and convenience.

Athena didn’t spring freshly-thought-of from the noggin of Haephestus, and these suits of improbably CONSISTENT armor (from helmets 🪖 to greaves and gauntlets and boots 🥾) are just nonsensical.

And I can’t see how, given this came from the Nolan-verse (see Batman Begins, below in the picture above), this can be justified as being anything other than trying to look cool.

Just a basic man at arms or militia spearmen

The concept is based on a Maximilian-style armour. But I have added more golden pieces and engravings.

«Iba el Gran Capitán á la estradiota, vestidas unas corazas españolas de carmesí y un peto que le cubría los pechos. Llevaba cruces coloradas en los pechos y espaldas, quijotes, brazales y manoplas, un estoque y una daga. Llevaba la cara descubierta. El de Arellano le dijo: «Señor, cubrios la cara porque vais muy señalado», porque llevaba encima de las armas un saycte de damasco blanco con fajas de brocado; así que todo iba de blanco.»
Crónicas del Gran Capitán / por Antonio Rodríguez Villa, CAPÍTULO XVII, p. 452.