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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Thresher" data-source="post: 819682" data-attributes="member: 9983">The spartan Hoplite of around 4-500BC carried a spear that was between 6'6" and 10ft long and had an iron head and a bronze butt-spike that could be used in case the head got snapped off.They where a 1 handed weapon, yeah throw that D&D crap out about spears needing 2 hands ok, they dont really know that much about historical warfare.Hoplites also carried a straight double edged sword made of iron with bronze fittings, that had a blade about 2' long and was effective for both slashing and thrusting in close quarters.The shield, called a 'Hoplon' which is where they get their name, weighs about 8kg, or 18pds for you freaks that dont use metric <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Its made of mostly wood and faced with bronze and backed by leather. Sometimes they would hang a heavy leather curtain off the bottom to protect the feet and legs. Its about 3ft tall and completly circular.Armour, varies. The most expensive cuirass where made of bronze but others where made of a laminate of linen or canvas layers(called a linothorax) and reinforced with metal plates and scales. They afforded the best body protection in the world for some time.On his legs the spartan wore bronze greaves and sandals, though later on they canned those because they where too heavy and made it hard to move. Sometimes there where equivalent arm guards.To put them on they where basically 'sprung' and squeezed onto the limb and didnt use straps.The helmet was made of bronze construction as well and sometimes was decorated with a brightly died horsehair crest.The 'phalanx' formation, every man occupies a 3foot square area and where sometimes up to 8men deep and the left frontage of his shield covered his neighbour. The rear ranks advance as the front ones get mown down.Spartans where about as hardcore as you could imagine, their life was extreamly tough from day one focused on survival, fighting and discipline.</blockquote>

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