Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-29729442-20161212012142/@comment-29729442-20161212143145

Party Vanderbilt wrote: Tactics change over time. Who'd have thunk?

More to the point, we don't know when the Manual of Armor was written, or for what army (if any specific army at all). Tactics don't just change over time, they change from one army to another. Armies do not all fight the same.

Lastly, at the end of the day it's Bethesda who determine what is and is not lore friendly.

Even at The Elder Scrolls Online (Second Era) the imperial infantry used heavy armor and the "Manual of Armor" can only be found during the events of Oblivion, wich means that it was written around the end of the Third Era.

The Manual of Armor does not say it for a specific army, but it refers to every single soldier (if it refered to a specific army it would be written there).

Also until Bethesda includes a single clue (a book, a dialogue, anything) that says that the tactics were changed, it will still not be lore friendly.