| Dragon skin has the same liabilities as the old scale mail did. Strikes coming in from any direction other than striaght from the front have potential to slide between the scales and penetrate.
This is why scale mail was scrapped in favor of the harder to manufacture and maintain chain mail. And even chain was eventually supplanted or added to by plate.
That's, functionally, where we are at now. Plate over chain mail. Going backwards to scale mail would be just that, a devolution to a lesser form of armor. |