08-24-2016, 05:16 PM
(08-24-2016, 05:00 PM)JaM Wrote: no because if you strike him sideways, he has no shield there, and you could even hit his armpit.. has nothing to do with his height. He is just much more vulnerable to flanking hits, and role of a guy with the Warthog shield, would be to keep his opponent busy, so he has no time to strike diagonaly against that guy. you dont really need the most powerful strike for that.. just good reach and accuracy of hits.
Look at the angle of the hoplites to the person taking the picture, they are 90 degrees to the shield faces. Based on your descriptions the hoplites will stop outside spear length distance from one another, so about 5-7 feet away, and then fence with one another. To actually get around the shield faces means attacking within 10 degrees or so from the front of the line, more sideways than diagonal. Unless you plan to get right up against the aspis of the ox shield guy you won't have any angle to go around the shield of Mr. Lambda, and that's implying you have the abilityt to deliver a blow from only a few feet away, a move you couldn't do with an underhanded Matthew grip because your spear point is 5 feet away, not 2 feet, which means to hit the exposed right of Mr. Lambda you've have to be standing in front of Guys With Two Chickens.
