How many Roman muscle breast plate cuirasses would have existed in Germania?
In total, in 12 B.C., when there were about 30,000 to 50,000 Roman troops beginning the invasion of Germania, there were probably several thousand segmented cuirasses plus several thousand chain mail shirts (regular infantry legionaries), tens of thousands of leather armor (auxiliary troops), many hundred scale mail shirts (lower ranking officers), and probably only a few dozen muscle cuirasses (the generals). This makes your capturing this kind of armor about as unlikely as Iraqi insurgents capturing Donald Rumsfield or General Sanchez… But for reasons of gameplay, I provided at least one of these cuirasses for you to capture (barter doesn’t make sense since anyone wearing such a cuirass would be rich and not in need of anything, except for the solid protection offered by his cuirass): The leader of the Roman troop with the hostages now wears a muscle cuirass (in the Full Version of Teudogar).
