Paul: i took that 1.5m reach from your blog... its your number, not mine..
Giannis K. Hoplite: of course polearm were supposed to be used at the long reach.. that was their whole point... if they weren't, these guys would instead use war axes .. but with polearm they prefered to have a reach so they could get at the cavalrymen and force him off his horse... Similarly, in Japan, Ashigaru's used naginatas to have longer reach, katanas were never actually used in battle as primary weapons but as mere sidearm...
Paul, one additional comment to those gifs: you are standing with both foot at the same position, wasn't the left foot supposed to be forward with right foot in the back, with the oblique post?
Quote:By the 5th century, the classical Greek dory, or fighting spear, appears to have been as much as 2.5 m long, but it was effectively longer because a combination of rear weighting and tapering of the shaft moved the center of balance, hence the grip, back to about a third of the way from the bottom. A 2.5 m dory had a reach of over 1.5 m, similar to a 3.3 m mid-balanced spear.
http://hollow-lakedaimon.blogspot.com/
Giannis K. Hoplite: of course polearm were supposed to be used at the long reach.. that was their whole point... if they weren't, these guys would instead use war axes .. but with polearm they prefered to have a reach so they could get at the cavalrymen and force him off his horse... Similarly, in Japan, Ashigaru's used naginatas to have longer reach, katanas were never actually used in battle as primary weapons but as mere sidearm...
Paul, one additional comment to those gifs: you are standing with both foot at the same position, wasn't the left foot supposed to be forward with right foot in the back, with the oblique post?
Jaroslav Jakubov
