04-20-2007, 08:26 PM
Well a mass arming or rearming must consider costs.
Plus shorter weapons are better in tight formations so I gues there must have been shorter than spatha.
The "tzikourion" was more probable for the low quality thematic troops and the later period infantry levies.
I am still of the opinion that late period, good qualÃty retinues would be more probably horsemen rather than infantrymen (Varrangians excluded) so longer swords would be more probable.
Even Varnagians except the big axe would carry the saex rather than a longer sword.
Kind regards
Plus shorter weapons are better in tight formations so I gues there must have been shorter than spatha.
The "tzikourion" was more probable for the low quality thematic troops and the later period infantry levies.
I am still of the opinion that late period, good qualÃty retinues would be more probably horsemen rather than infantrymen (Varrangians excluded) so longer swords would be more probable.
Even Varnagians except the big axe would carry the saex rather than a longer sword.
Kind regards
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http://hetairoi.de/
http://hoplomachia.gr
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