[Ansteorra] Uselss swords

[jay yeates]

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From: ansteorra-admin at ansteorra.org
[mailto:ansteorra-admin at ansteorra.org] On Behalf Of Marc Carlson
Sent: 2002, September 16, Monday 15:03

What can I say, I'm a big fan of the loud smoking sticks that spit
rocks.

..
especially when uncle gustav (adolphus) implemented a new design - a
light barreled, affordable, easily replicated, "smoking stick" that
could easily be hauled around the battlefield on wheeled carts .. thus
began the faster decline of traditional mercenary companies and the rise
of national armies ("bowling for pike squares")

'wolf