ANST - A bit on weapons
Keith Hood
keith_dell at hotmail.com
Fri Feb 18 12:48:03 PST 2000
Some things you mentioned I can't address. But...
>
>3) If we are considered to be wearing open-faced helms, so that we should
>take any thrust to the face that would have touched the face, why do we
>just
>shrug off incidents of our own shield bashing into our face hard enough to
>rock us?
>
Because shields aren't normally made with sharp cutting edges like the
weapons that knock them into our faces. <G> Unless you've done something
REALLY wrong in making your shield, in which case you deserve whatever you
get. <G>
Tomonaga
--
A long bow and a strong bow,
And let the sky grow dark.
The nock to the cord, the shaft to the ear,
And a foreign king for a mark!
-- Stolen from "The Song of the Bosonian Archers" --
By Robert E. Howard, who should be
the patron saint of Ansteorra
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