07-15-2006, 05:40 AM
It's just a shape problem: 2000 years ago training and strengtht are different, of course 
, but in combat if you try to hit with the edge of your shield faces to hurt or uncover the body of the adversary, a flat shield is much better. I've tried both the shields in a lot of full contact "mock" combats (with plastic swords) and it'so for me. Better also for the overlapping in a shields wall as Faventianus says.
Vale,
Titus
, but in combat if you try to hit with the edge of your shield faces to hurt or uncover the body of the adversary, a flat shield is much better. I've tried both the shields in a lot of full contact "mock" combats (with plastic swords) and it'so for me. Better also for the overlapping in a shields wall as Faventianus says.Vale,
Titus
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... Tu modo nascenti puero, quo ferrea primum
desinet ac toto surget Gens Aurea mundo,
casta faue Lucina; tuus iam regnat Apollo ...
Vergilius, Bucolicae, ecloga IV, 4-10
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... Tu modo nascenti puero, quo ferrea primum
desinet ac toto surget Gens Aurea mundo,
casta faue Lucina; tuus iam regnat Apollo ...
Vergilius, Bucolicae, ecloga IV, 4-10
