LOL cloth armour amirite? Those silly Aztecs!
For analogous plant-cloth armour, on April 2013 the Aldrete family tried linen. This was the Hellenistic-era armour which Alexander wore to the Orient. Alexander discovered what Hernán Cortés found for himself: against mobile archers, metal plate just makes you a standing target. Not to mention that you have to schlep it over mountains even to get to the battlefield.
To block slow missiles, you need cloth. You dodge the worst and shrug off the rest. (Against gunshot it doesn't help of course, but then neither does plate or chain anymore.) The Aldretes didn't test this on each other; they let Scott Bartell take this one for the team, as it were. Luckily the armour worked.
Maybe Crassus should have considered that.
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