LEGIO

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>Celtics didn't know metellurgy to the extent the italics did.
the other way around kek

even after the roman republic had conquered most of the empire, the legions raised in central europe used regular steel helmets, while the italics were still poor and couldtn afford anything more than bronze, and so a bronze variant of the de nidau helmet was created

>They even stole the fucking design of their armor for their lorica segmentata
italics are technically an offshoot of celts, they're really the same thing, they were just a less developped poorer farming colony on the outskirts of where europeans lived back then

basically fronteersmen

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celts were good at metalurgy

WE DID IT REDDIT

...MY EGGO

seething Carthagelet

lol he's correct

not only are italics (and rome is an italic city state) a tribe of celts themselves (split from the rest around 1200 BC which is fairly late), since they were less wealthy than their central european counterparts, their military technology was always behind the rest of the celtic world by 200-400 years or thereabout

republican roman soldiers used only bronze armor, with a bronze rectangle roughly the size of a modern ballistic plate on their chest, and a cheap conical bronze helmet with 3 feathers, that was the roman kit
meanwhile the rest of celts further up north had invented chainmail, plate armor, used iron and steel instead of bronze etc

there isn't a single part of the roman equipement that isn't a celtic military technology from a more developped place

chainmail and segmentata, both from the alps
helmet from southern france/northern italy
sword from spain
shield from basically everywhere in western europe since before the founding of rome

This style of weapons and armor became famous because Cesar made it mandatory for all roman troops after he won the civil war, since it was the armor and weapons his armies were using (his legions all came from gaul, spain or northern italy)

so from the victory of cesar on pompei onwards, all roman troops used this armor, but before cesar no roman troops used it

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99% of you fat anime Any Forums NERDS wouldnt last a day in the roman legion.

legio ergo sum

Their metallurgy is literally the most advanced hallmark of their culture. The celts are credited with the origination of chain mail, the "roman" helmet, and they were highly competent are making gold jewelry.

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