AK-47 - its the only way. Can you imagine attaching someone with a sword with one of those.


BlazeME: Flameus Muchus n00bus

I once saw a strange medeival looking weapon in a museum in Greece somewhere. It looks rather like a pike, or halberd, but is about 15 metres long, and is supposed to be held by like two men. No it wasn't a battering ram, it was thin and spear like. Very unusual. Don't think it was Greek.

wasn't that the spear the Macedonian phalanxes used?

superior Roman tactics and more manageable weapons put an end to the dominance of the phalanx.

Thank you very much I know what a phalanx is and this is NOT the spear they used. It was all steel for one, it was definantly medeival.

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I like the long, and broad ones.

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*giggles* must...refrain...from making...sex joke....

Ooh I've been a bad example. Please carry on with the topic

ok Griff chill out, that's just what it sounded like, that's all.

Longbow. Best use of archers ever.

Also, the broadsword. I have a soft spot for seeing a good swordfight. Katanas are decent too, but their style isn't as cool as broadsword. Don't think for a second teh people who wielded a broadsword were slow and clumsy. They were, in fact, almost as fast as modern fencers.

Lances are cool too.

Gladii were useful only in the way they were used: Massed infantry in formation. In single combat, it was probably less useful because many "barbarians" used longer swords. Romans were decent only because they had strategy to back them up, and their soldiers were soldiers, not warriors.

Edited by - pieman3141 on 1/27/2004 10:16:52 AM

Hmmmm just been perusing throught morrowinds vast array of weapons
and decided, Maces, Dai-Katanas, claymores and warhammers
these are my favorite sorta weapons

BTW Taw are you sure that the Gladius and Spatha were "medieval" weapons

this has it all



I like Morrowind!

I never said the gladius and spatha were medieval. They're Roman (well the spatha is celtic originally but was adopted by the Romans)

The Roman Army of the late Republic and early to high Empire was better than any of those medieval oiks (except for the Normans, and of course the Byzantines but they were Romans anyway)

The gladius isn't technically medieval , but at least Taw has switched from discussing firearms to long and pointy metallic objects. That's progress!

FF - *Shakes head* And from a Mod too...

I'm surprised that no-one has mentioned the rapier. Fencing was a great way to dispose of your enemies (assuming that you are faster than they are) . Fencing is still around these days, but fencing clubs are rare here in Aus. There are only two in Victoria (that I know of).

Now here is the best weapon ever conceived; the horse! Think about how different history would have been if the horse had never been trained, bred and introduced into warfare! No Chevalier , no Dragoons, etc. In my view, they truly revolutionalised the development of medieval warfare.

pah! ponyboys. Easy to counter with the right equipment and tactics.

Of course you can counter them, but a good cavalry charge is unstoppable! Even some light cavalry can decimate an army by cutting chunks out of the army's flanks.

gladius

how can any1 not know that it is Roman

Why is it that whenever you attempt to catch something that's falling off the table you always manage to knock something else over?
its in the way

Edited by - ):Wolf_Demon on 1/27/2004 3:24:18 PM

square formation or testudo any cavalry charge can be broken by well-trained and disciplined heavy infantry, especially if armed with pikes. back em up with some archers, don't even need any allied cavalry. chuck in a few ballistae and scorpii, pah, the battles won before its begun.

and elephants too, they're always useful against cavalry, scare the horses (historically attested to many times) and they look good on the battlefield too!

I'd match my disciplined Roman foot-soldiers against your poncey horses anyday i'll be seeing you in Rome: Total War then

Edited by - Tawakalna on 1/27/2004 3:49:30 PM