Same way you cut with anything, swing your arm. What's the problem?Originally Posted by AlexanderSextus
Re: How to use a Gladius in RL???
Same way you cut with anything, swing your arm. What's the problem?
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Re: How to use a Gladius in RL???
no problem, i just thought that maybe the romans had developed a specific way of cutting with it. no big deal...
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Re: How to use a Gladius in RL???
There were quite a few fighting scenes in HBO's Rome, if you want to check that out. In first episode, they show a battle against Gauls, with Romans fighting in standard formation. And in eleventh episode, there's an arena fight between two gladiators equipped with sword and smaller shield.
Re: How to use a Gladius in RL???
I also recall a technique where you "hook" your arm around the back of your opponent's knee and yank the gladius back toward you, severing the tendons of the leg in the process. Yeah, ouch.
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Re: How to use a Gladius in RL???
hamstringing is indeed effective. but it does not compare to stabbing through the solar plexus
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Re: How to use a Gladius in RL???
No doubt but you've got to get through the sheild first, granted that your opponent actually knows what he's doing.
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Re: How to use a Gladius in RL???
A good movement is to push the opponent with the shield, and while the guy is locked on your shield, cut the tendons behind the knee, which will make the opponent to fall on the ground, ripe for a final hit.
Also, common thrusting hits would be to the belly, neck, face, and not so common but nevertheless possible hits would be to the ribs area (danger of the blade getting stuck in the bones).
And I base the prior on absolutely nothing but common sense.
PS: Oh, and the scutum is absolutely essential.
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Re: How to use a Gladius in RL???
I know.. that's why sometimes stabbing in the armpit works
but yes, hanstringing is safest, and quickest in knoking all the enemies down to be killed.
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