01-02-2014, 08:02 PM
I apologize for the thread necromancy. There has recently been another debate on our EB fora about overarm v. underarm spears. Personally, I see no reason to use an underarm grip. I came across this thread when I was searching for some stats on the power of spears I saw a few years ago.
Macedon, I was looking at your collection of photos and the first one you uploaded looks to me to be a lesson in why not to use an underarm grip in battle. It seems the poor guy on the left just took a nice blow to the gut from his friend. Thank you for posting that.
Macedon, I was looking at your collection of photos and the first one you uploaded looks to me to be a lesson in why not to use an underarm grip in battle. It seems the poor guy on the left just took a nice blow to the gut from his friend. Thank you for posting that.
Quote:Unfortunately there are not many depictions of phalanxes in combat generally and even those that exist we are not really sure if they are depicting ranks or files... Generally, we can come to conclusions even from depictions of single combat instances or even better from depictions of battles with ranks/files of 2 or 3 figures. Yet, here are some relative pics. i am not sure about the 3rd image which could either be an overarm or an underarm depiction... I did not look for a more complete image. :
