06-03-2008, 12:32 PM
I now have mental images of a bunch of romans throwing their pila, charging, getting impaled on the butspikes, falling over each other and having to retreat, leaving the wooden targets victorious :lol:
We once had a short fight with a bunch of medieval reenactors. It was very awkward. we were standing their with our real pila. They were advancing. We stood there for a while in throwing position, then we put down our pila as we would probably have killed or wounded most of them if we had thrown them. Then they charged us and started hacking with their swords. all we could do was poke them very softly with the gladius. That didn't stop them of course. You could hold the gladius in front of their face, ready to thrust, but of course we couldn't punch the point into their face, not even softly
. Very frustrating...
We once had a short fight with a bunch of medieval reenactors. It was very awkward. we were standing their with our real pila. They were advancing. We stood there for a while in throwing position, then we put down our pila as we would probably have killed or wounded most of them if we had thrown them. Then they charged us and started hacking with their swords. all we could do was poke them very softly with the gladius. That didn't stop them of course. You could hold the gladius in front of their face, ready to thrust, but of course we couldn't punch the point into their face, not even softly
. Very frustrating...
