09-25-2013, 12:31 PM
Quote:So has the thinking reverted to a few plumbatae put on the back of the shield? I still think, marching and carrying a shield laden with a kilo or two of missile weapons would add to the left arm fatigue considerably. I'd be trying to figure out how to carry them some other way pretty quickly. A shield is sort of a clumsy thing at best.True, but a plumbata weighs on average between 80 and 140 grams. Only one really heavy dude weighed 341 grams. So on average, 5 plumbatae would be less than a kilo.
Robert Vermaat
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FECTIO Late Romans
THE CAUSE OF WAR MUST BE JUST
(Maurikios-Strategikon, book VIII.2: Maxim 12)