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Some of Nordwar's armor are lacking in quality and IMO you picked a pretty shitty variant to represent "realistic" armor. His "Guard armor replacer", and the Redguard armor probably look the best from his work albeit the split in the aventail is very shit. His "Heavy Legion" also does wonders in regards to making the Empire look like a credible threat instead of a bunch of larpers.
Skyrim is trying to sell you a unique barbaric landscape that is loosely based off of West Germanic culture. Its why later medieval armors and plate doesn't really make too much sense and clashes with the games design, but armor based off the Rus and West Germanics from earlier periods do.