07-14-2007, 05:25 AM
Quote:umm i dont think i'd be looking i'd be running away from some guy charging with an errection in a drug induced craze .
Wow! I didn't know the Gauls fought Florentine. :lol:
Right, there's one target just begging for the tip of a gladius. If I had some nude, berserk maniac with a yard of steel in my face, that might be the only trick that would make him back off. Maybe not even then, though it would take some potent mushrooms to make a man ignore a threat to the, er, well...Yeah, maybe running is a good idea.
On that note, how can you not take him seriously, when wearing nothing but his birthday suit he whips you anyway? I recall reading some accounts, Polybius maybe?, where the Gauls used this tactic against the Romans in the early days. It scared the daylights out of them, and took some serious work from the centurions to overcome it. By all accounts, they did get over it in time.
---AH Mervla, aka Joel Boynton
Legio XIIII, Gemina Martia Victrix
Legio XIIII, Gemina Martia Victrix