2019年8月15日 · Short lance / light lance - Longer than a spear but can be used somewhat one handed in an overhand grip as well as couched or two handed. Spear - Shortest of the 3, stabbing weapon, multiple thrusts in close or can charge with a one handed guided stab / thrust, can be used over or under hand grip.

2016年2月2日 · Basically, if you required to have a shield, it was because you had enough income to afford one. The 12th century English regulations start with a minimum of gambeson, helmet, and spear, which would seem to be more expensive than just shield and spear, which had been the standard in Anglo-Saxon times. So I don't think cost had much to do with it.

2017年10月14日 · To *me*, a pike is a long spear used strictly 2-handed. For the purposes of a discussion like this, I'd use "spear" for a ONE-handed weapon, typically used with a shield in the left hand. And yes, spear and shield has been used by any number of societies from the Bronze Age through the 13th century AD at least.

2016年1月10日 · When held overhand for a thrust, the point is angled slightly downwards, so that the buttspike is above the head and pointing upwards. Everyone behind you is safe. We also see the spear "couched" under the arm like a medieval …

2022年1月31日 · I will reframe this as a general heavy horseman with lance and bow versus a heavy footman with a spear and shield Both the horseman and spearman have a polearm, sword, and shield and heavy armour and helm. On foot they are more or less equal. But the horseman has more options. He has a horse and bow. I'll bet on the horseman.

2023年12月22日 · In earlier centuries, sure, shields were common. That may just be because "spear and shield" had been the main equipment since the Bronze Age, so guys covered in mail still carried one, but also because there really weren't polearms aside from spears. Plus your shield has your coat of arms on it (as if the surcoat and lance penon weren't enough!)

2016年1月10日 · Looking at the battles of the Macedonians (pikes), Greeks (spear and shield), and Romans (sword and shield), as well as later battles between European footsoldiers, it would seem to me that there is a rock paper scissors between pike, spear and shield, and sword and shield for footsoldier...

2015年2月14日 · On the other hand, the naginata was a very hard weapon to fully master (naginata expers were therefore highly regarded due to their rarity compared to spear or sword champions) and by the time of the Senkogu Jidai, with the rise of massed formations of ashigaru with their nagae yari, the naginata started to gradually disappear (in numbers) from ...

2018年10月3日 · However, to do this the hoplite would have to hold it near the middle, reducing the reach of the spear. Another theory is a sliding overarm thrust where the spear is more or less thrown at short range but while the shaft is still within the loose grip of the wielder. This concept is explained well in this video.

2014年6月4日 · Overarm, for soldiers in formation. A spear is not a gladius for close combat, its usage was different and it was better to keep it high; it left more functionality also to the shield for the single and for the line, it protects more: if you use the spear underarm you will have to keep the shield not exactly in front of you [in hand to hand …