02-04-2008, 08:19 PM
LOL
And exactly what I figured Robert- I'm hardly a master smith and I made one :wink: - and ease of construction is important to an army in the field since a fair number would be necessary to provide good area denial or at least hold up an attack in force. It's not hard to imagine during the circumvellation of Alesia, how many tens or hundreds of thousands of these things that must have been made...
I was surprised too to read about how old a weapon it is- apparently they date back to the 3rd century BCE...
And exactly what I figured Robert- I'm hardly a master smith and I made one :wink: - and ease of construction is important to an army in the field since a fair number would be necessary to provide good area denial or at least hold up an attack in force. It's not hard to imagine during the circumvellation of Alesia, how many tens or hundreds of thousands of these things that must have been made...
I was surprised too to read about how old a weapon it is- apparently they date back to the 3rd century BCE...
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