An Interesting Observation with Cabbages

[Nerva]

We we're doing a bit of weapons practice last evening. As killing the local Celts is generally frowned upon we decided to improvise and mount two white cabbages (79c each at Tesco, target providers to the emporer since.....er, last night) on a vertical pole to simulate the belly and head areas of a typical vegetable fed Celt (Don't fire until you can see the whites of their cabbages).

Oh yes, we had great fun chucking Pila at them, chopping them up with our Gladii and even poking them with our Pugii (Pugio's ) Anyway, as the evening and the slaughter of the innocent vegetables progressed, quite a lot of debris mounted up under the poles, until eventually the inevitable happened, a man slipped an near brained himself on the now slippy ground.

Now that was only cabbages. Can you imaging what it would have been like to try and keep your footing on blood and offal drenched soil. I can well imaging many a man met his fate as a result of slipping in such conditions.