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[asuras]

>.>

My brother's friends just said that a sarissa was 30-40 feet long.

[Note: Sarissa was primary weapon of the phalanx-guys. Think long spear implented by Philip and Alexander.]

Does that sound illogical to you?

Or am I completely brain damaged?

Anyway, I feel insulted by their stupidity.

Comments

[derryderrydown]

Hee! They are a bit off - seventeen to twenty-one feet was the normal length, with Alexander's troops tending towards the shorter end of the scale.

[asuras]

That's what I thought.

Can you imaigne running around with a 40 foot spear? >D It'd probably drag in the dirt or something equally undignified.

[teza]

Oh, no. It was only about 20 feet long.

(hah. only.)

oh SO predictable

[selfinduced]

la la la brain only registering the 'feet' and 'long' and 'Alexander' and 'phalanx' la la la

[liaexmachina]

Twenty feet was the pre-Alexander standard.

[deerlike]

*blinks* My mind barely registered the words "long spear" before devolving into...smuttyness. Also, somehow I misread "think" as "thick".

...damn it, the doctors swore it'd be a temporary thing!