11-03-2007, 11:29 AM
...that's precisely my point, Giannis...the options offered don't even begin to exhaust the possibilities....for example , C. and D. and variations thereon can be made to work much better if the shields are held at a more 'natural' angle i.e. not at 90 degrees to the Hoplite's axis, (0 degrees to a hypothetical 'line') but rather with the left edge of the shield sloping slightly to the rear, compared to the right, say 15-30 degrees to an imagined front horizontal line......
"dulce et decorum est pro patria mori " - Horace
(It is a sweet and proper thing to die for ones country)
"No son-of-a-bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - George C Scott as General George S. Patton
Paul McDonnell-Staff
(It is a sweet and proper thing to die for ones country)
"No son-of-a-bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - George C Scott as General George S. Patton
Paul McDonnell-Staff