04-14-2010, 06:35 PM
Arfur needs a bit of serbian style ethnic cleansing, methinks! I have this recurring nightmare where I die and go to heaven, only to find everyone is called ruddy Arthur!!
Aneeeeeway, BACK to s rom Brit cav. (Alstublijft)
Haarke has made it pretty clear that Saxons practised what he calls "Apartheid" in their newly acquired post Roman English state..and gained/exercised control with small numbers, relatively speaking.
That means folk with advanced "better" weapons. And, it seems, the sword was a "restricted" weapon. That has to be for a good reason. Ie Cost, maintaining power and authority. My surmise is that they they did this thanks to their superior Frijs/Ingaphone/Kazuby/Hansebund trading system that gave them access to the best kit. There was a lot of good kit, we know, in the lower rhine basin and in Denmark.
Key elite foreign troops fight with good metal weapons and not wooden spears, at this time. Wooden spears would be fine for poorly armoured peasant levies..or even a rival fyrd. To deal with a professional armed thug from Bornholm, you d need better I think.
Aneeeeeway, BACK to s rom Brit cav. (Alstublijft)
Haarke has made it pretty clear that Saxons practised what he calls "Apartheid" in their newly acquired post Roman English state..and gained/exercised control with small numbers, relatively speaking.
That means folk with advanced "better" weapons. And, it seems, the sword was a "restricted" weapon. That has to be for a good reason. Ie Cost, maintaining power and authority. My surmise is that they they did this thanks to their superior Frijs/Ingaphone/Kazuby/Hansebund trading system that gave them access to the best kit. There was a lot of good kit, we know, in the lower rhine basin and in Denmark.
Key elite foreign troops fight with good metal weapons and not wooden spears, at this time. Wooden spears would be fine for poorly armoured peasant levies..or even a rival fyrd. To deal with a professional armed thug from Bornholm, you d need better I think.
Roderic Wout..
Today\'s truths are often tomorrow\'s lies
Today\'s truths are often tomorrow\'s lies
