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Message: <blockquote data-quote="William_2" data-source="post: 2136483" data-attributes="member: 13925">Well, if you are matching an image, in this case a miniature, maybe the character is using a long spear, rather than a "longspear".  The game version of the longspear is a reach weapon, so I would think that spears of up to as much as ten feet long might still be considered "spears".   A miniature that is like a Hoplite, with a spear even longer than that, would still be tough, I guess.  The notion of such a spear as an individual weapon strikes me as odd, though.  I think Hoplites or any other pikemen were able to use those weapons in a formation.  The idea of someone lugging one around and trying to fight someone with a sword or a practical spear with it (in one hand especially!) doesn’t seem very convincing.I thought the hoplite "type" was consciously added to 3rd ed., actually.  The breastplate strikes me as quite explicitly the Hoplite, and not much else.  Shield, shortsword, and a couple of spears, and you are there.  Sorry, tangent.  Call it a spear, that is my point.  They can be quite long, I think.</blockquote>