[Ansteorra] RE: Uselss swords
Marc Carlson
marccarlson20 at hotmail.com
Mon Sep 16 20:50:26 PDT 2002
>From: "jay yeates" <jyeates at realtime.net>
>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")
I like the hand held ones. The big ones are only useful for grape shot and
chain shot :)
Marc/Diarmaid
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