Segmentata vs. Falx

[brennivs - tony drake]

I have had my Falx for 16 years now and I can tell you If I was coming up against you I would only use the point only :evil: I would not bother hitting a Segmentata, the weapon is for soft tissue. Mine would punch through a helmet hence the cross bracing ( but I would worry that the blade might jam into the helmet ), it would take a arm off hence the Manica, also take a leg off hence the Greave. I would not use it to hit a shield, again as has been mentioned no good, but quite effective to use it as a hook while another goes in while your guard is down. Now if the point was used against Hamata or Squamata again it would tare through this, It would not cut you from shoulder to groin but even 6" inch cut you will not been able to fight on. The mind set I would say for a Dacian was to cause as much trauma to the body as possible a wounded soldier takes more manpower to look after than a dead one. Now there is wide varation in the blade styles and sizes from the various pictorial reference as well as found examples, so judging from the designs Ive seen some would not be able to do the helmet punching, but against flesh no problem. I don't have the pics of the various examples on this computer to show :-( I will see what I can do :grin:
http://www.romanarmytalk.com/20-roman-re...l?start=15
This has one or two pics on my thread
Regards Brennivs