PugJesus@lemmy.worldM to Illustrations of history@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agoRoman legionaries using their comrades' shields to storm an elevated and fortified barbarian positionlemmy.worldimagemessage-square2fedilinkarrow-up138arrow-down11
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minus-squareBodilessGaze@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·3 months agoIs the dude in the bottom left throwing rocks? Never bring a rock to a javelin fight.
minus-squarePugJesus@lemmy.worldOPMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·3 months agoA man only has so many javelins to throw! Funny enough, the Roman writer Vegetius suggests that throwing rocks by hand was a secondary skill that legionaries were trained in for various edge cases like this.
Is the dude in the bottom left throwing rocks? Never bring a rock to a javelin fight.
A man only has so many javelins to throw! Funny enough, the Roman writer Vegetius suggests that throwing rocks by hand was a secondary skill that legionaries were trained in for various edge cases like this.