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Yeah...I'm leaning towards a fashion trend myself. Did you get yours finished Barry so you can do some tests yet?
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Quote:Magnus:2xbj5vla Wrote:Your spatha isn't something you'd want to drop at a full gallop...
Agreed....just seems odd that these fittings seem to appear on Mainz type swords, not spathae?
I never mentioned cavalry, I said soldiers who could find themselves on horseback. That means footsoldiers who primarily fought on ground.
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Quote:I said soldiers who could find themselves on horseback.
e.g. Caesar's Tenth soldiers who were
ad hoc bodyguards during the Gallic wars?
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Quote:Yeah...I'm leaning towards a fashion trend myself. Did you get yours finished Barry so you can do some tests yet?
One of your fellow countrymen is working on that for me :wink: Will not be able to experiment until the summer though I think, now that I am working in Libya.
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