celts used poisened spears.

[keravnos]

Pahlavan were also mentioned to use poisoned arrows.
They would be called "Parthian arrows" and often it was recovered to be used against them as well.
When the expression was used in literature it meant that once you have let loose a poisoned arrow, you ought to take into consideration that it could very well be used against you.

[Justinian II]

Pahlavan were also mentioned to use poisoned arrows.
They would be called "Parthian arrows" and often it was recovered to be used against them as well.
When the expression was used in literature it meant that once you have let loose a poisoned arrow, you ought to take into consideration that it could very well be used against you.

The Scythians were pretty famous for that, too...and even had a poison named after them, if I recall correctly, it was mostly to keep wounds from healing up, so even if you didn't get killed,it would put you out of commission for a while,if not permanently.

It would be interesting, but again, not sure how to portray this in the RTW engine

[Khazar_Dahvos]

yes I believe the scythians did!! They used to make a nasty cocktail by taking a steppe adder or vipers and kill it put it in a crock or container mixed with human blood and feces to enhance and speed up neurotoxins. Bury it for a week and apply it to their arrows. Nasty biological warfare shite. I was just reading it a couple of weeks ago in a Bronze, Brains & Blood magazine

[Elmetiacos]

I have a suspicion this idea may have been started by Robert Graves' The White Goddess... where was the article?