Millennium A.D. is a faction mod for the open-source game 0 A.D by Wildfire Games. The project will be divided into two parts, and aims to bring prominent factions that existed worldwide (between 500-1000 A.D. and 1000-1500 A.D. timeframes, respectively) into the game.

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DukeRando
DukeRando

Nice, are the helms gold plated ?

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wackyserious Author
wackyserious

Brass, I believe so. It was our team member, Stan who created the helmet.

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MrEmjeR
MrEmjeR

They probably had bronze and iron back in the day, brass is too brittle for armor though. Gold plated helmets, if they existed would have been ceremonial.

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DukeRando
DukeRando

On brass being too brittle; would a helmet made of iron/steel but with a thin brass lining work ?

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MrEmjeR
MrEmjeR

actually some more research shows they did: here is a saxon helmet from the viking period. En.wikipedia.org
I don't think they would completely cover the helmet with brass though but use it as a contrast with darker metal. at leas i can't find any evidence of it.

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MrEmjeR
MrEmjeR

also a correction, brass is actually too soft and malleable, but still brittle. It's only slightly worse than bronze, but brass was relatively only just discovered (500 bc) compared to bronze making since 3500 bc.
also iron and steel were well on their way of becoming pretty good, and they were already outperforming their yellow alternatives in many ways.

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.Eol.
.Eol.

Don't mix things up. Brass is used commonly as a decorative layer, for its golden look. You'll find it on both weapons and armors (looking at sabers today or from the last century which are 100% intact, all the golden stuff is brass.)
But it's only the decorative layer. At that time, armors and weapons are made out of steel.

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WidowsWail
WidowsWail

Not ceremonial is just to show off in the battlefield.

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Updated Huscarl units.