Lamellar (V7)

An Armor

The Rulebook defines it as "plates that have been joined in an overlapping fasion by cord or chain link."

This definition is pretty accurate, though lamellar can be constructed other ways.

• A form of byzantine lamellar the lames were laced and later riveted to strips of leather and the strips were then laced together in the normal fassion through the holes in the lames.
• Lamellar is truely an international armour being used from Scandinavia to Africa to Japan and many places inbetween.
• By Amtgard's current definitons Locking Scale is lamellar.
• Japanese Lamellar aka Kozane is traditionally made from over 1/8" thick chinese water buffalo rawhide and like most other Japanese armour it has the hell lacquered out of it to the point where it can look like plactic. The lames are normally laced together very tightly negateing any mobility lamellar noramlly permits and like other forms of Japanese armour the laceing can get downright gaudy.