09-10-2010, 04:13 AM
Many thanks for posting the results of your testing! The results are pretty much what one would have expected.....but it is good that someone has done some practical testing, since otherwise debates tend to go on indefinitely!
Your tests re-inforce similar practical results, in that rioting mobs, no matter how deep, seem unable to push back lines of police never more than three or four deep, and 'Society of Creative Anachronism' combat results which show that 'wedges', 'columns' etc are unable to 'break through' lines three or four deep.
I remember one such 'debate' among ancient history lovers many years ago that ran and ran, as to whether Romans could really have worn gladii on the right as depicted on Trajan's column, and managed to draw them ( this was long before the first Roman re-enactors! ). The debate was only eventually resolved when someone did some experimenting with on old long bayonet, of gladius length, and published photos of same being drawn easily on the right......
D lol:
Hopefully others will also conduct similar experiments of a practical nature too.....I have no doubt that Paul B. for one, and perhaps others, will have a number of questions...... :wink:
Your tests re-inforce similar practical results, in that rioting mobs, no matter how deep, seem unable to push back lines of police never more than three or four deep, and 'Society of Creative Anachronism' combat results which show that 'wedges', 'columns' etc are unable to 'break through' lines three or four deep.
I remember one such 'debate' among ancient history lovers many years ago that ran and ran, as to whether Romans could really have worn gladii on the right as depicted on Trajan's column, and managed to draw them ( this was long before the first Roman re-enactors! ). The debate was only eventually resolved when someone did some experimenting with on old long bayonet, of gladius length, and published photos of same being drawn easily on the right......
D lol: Hopefully others will also conduct similar experiments of a practical nature too.....I have no doubt that Paul B. for one, and perhaps others, will have a number of questions...... :wink:
"dulce et decorum est pro patria mori " - Horace
(It is a sweet and proper thing to die for ones country)
"No son-of-a-bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - George C Scott as General George S. Patton
Paul McDonnell-Staff
(It is a sweet and proper thing to die for ones country)
"No son-of-a-bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - George C Scott as General George S. Patton
Paul McDonnell-Staff
