06-15-2009, 12:37 AM
Might I venture to suggest the simplest explanation is the obvious one? .....the off-centre porpax allows a man to deploy a slightly larger shield for a given forearm length.......and note that it is only slightly off-centre at that - too much unbalances the shield too much.
"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