Full blown combat or display only?

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I was one of the barbarians having a go at the Romans at York John spoke of. We were all contact steel re-enactors, mostly Regia etc, and armed as such and they, the XX and XIIII Legions, were mostly not and bore sharps (I was told at the time that the XX was more about the civic displays in Chester than traditional re-enactment - I suspect they have changed a lot since then).

http://pics.livejournal.com/salvianus/gallery/0000fwbp
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Ave!

I dont know if any of you remember when some of us joined to the legios once in 2006. I think there were around 8 additional gladiators armed with scutum and gladius(dulled) against all the barbarians. On our side we had a few original legionary.
:twisted:

It was fun.