Boar Roman Centurion Helmets

[LadyV]

The Romans crest was made from horsetail hairs...while the Germanic warriors mainly didn't wear helmets, more of the Gallic and British Celts did - some of them with some kind of Crest (maybe even made of boarhair) ...or something like this wonderful thingie:

Actually only legionaries would have used horse hair. Centurions would have use bright plumed feathers from peacocks or other rare birds. Centurion helmets also tended to be embossed with silver or ornately gilded if important enough.

However thank you for bringing up the point of the two different helmets. I thin there is room for both. Haven certainly need more variety.

[Phoenix246]

That looks cool. I'd like to have it as a high-tier helmet, between soldier's helm and dhelm maybe. Also +1 to animals related equipments, that would be another reason to hunt anything other than bears.

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I like this idea because it gives more choices for helmets and something more to do with boars and bronze.

[borka]

Put some effort into your posting! We would like to see some actual discussion not empty "+1" posts like this

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@LadyV
still searching for reliable images of non roman but "european" crested helmets...oh not those of "greeks" or "tracians" that romans copied

[LadyV]

@LadyV
still searching for reliable images of non roman but "european" crested helmets...oh not those of "greeks" or "tracians" that romans copied

Crested helmets tended to be more a southern Europe tradition. The Romans merely imitated the culture they were in to be less intrusive. Purely Central European helmet traditions were more simple and practical. Spikes were more common in those.

[toshirohayate]

It's a cool idea, but wouldn't it make the a little useless? Unless you needed a bunch of metals to make this new helmet. Then that would make sense.

[LadyV]

It's a cool idea, but wouldn't it make the a little useless? Unless you needed a bunch of metals to make this new helmet. Then that would make sense.

Not really. Every helm in the game has a purpose and stage of use. If you were to progress without outside help you would probably start with the boars tusk helmet or the druid's helmet. Obviously once you had metals you could move to bronze, soldier or if you were lucky dragon helm.

Any piece of armor that achieves it purpose is useful. Take current world. With the growing quality of leather the boars tusk helmet continues to gain ability while the dragon is still limited by metal. It may not have surpassed a dragons stage but its slowly catching up.

[Jamdawn]

It's a cool idea, but wouldn't it make the a little useless? Unless you needed a bunch of metals to make this new helmet. Then that would make sense.

Not really. Every helm in the game has a purpose and stage of use. If you were to progress without outside help you would probably start with the boars tusk helmet or the druid's helmet. Obviously once you had metals you could move to bronze, soldier or if you were lucky dragon helm.

Any piece of armor that achieves it purpose is useful. Take current world. With the growing quality of leather the boars tusk helmet continues to gain ability while the dragon is still limited by metal. It may not have surpassed a dragons stage but its slowly catching up.

I agree with you sir, every helmets have its own function and purpose.
pretty nice other idea though a little need some adjustments,

[Oddity]

I always wanted the Soldier's Helm to have a crest like in OP's pic.

[Theos]

I'm totally on the side of putting this in the game, though I'd rather have a bronze age hoplite helmet