Byzantine Weapons and Warfare

[Orlirva]

really great timeline event with superb weather. Finished half the projects I planned - still need to rework all the lamellar armor, though. The oddball hit within our camp was
the Javlin. A bunch of us and every teen in our group have sore arms from excessive practice. We also practiced some sling work, but just a bit. Therefore...

Perhaps the highlight for me was during our second field demo... young Patrick
C., 13, had been practicing the arts of the Peltstatoi, the 'pelters'
skirmishers armed with sling and javlin. I told the gathered audience he would
sling a missle (surplus breakfast hard-boiled egg) at an imaginary enemy 100
meters away, a target represented by a solitary large oak tree 50 meters out. He wound up and
let fly and that egg splatted right square on the trunk in a trajectory that
clearly would have gone 100 meters. One shot, One goliath DOWN! Crowd goes wild.

Rick