05-14-2007, 09:56 AM
Quote:As to armour penetration, yes, it is not easy to come up with examples ( though there are more of these than you might suppose)What are they? I need citations.
Quote:Epaminondas, Agesilaus (and others )succumbed to wounds in battle, to give but two notable examples. There is the incident in Xenophon referred to several times in this thread, the more general examples of Thermopylae, Sphacteria and Platea as well.Irrelevant unless they specifically say that the arrows actually penetrated armour. As I said, there are plenty of ways for someone to die from arrow wounds without their armour being compromised.
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