Quote Originally Posted by Wigferth Ironwall
Aditionally the current stab aevionknight is using is actually a fencing lunge, you can get up a lot of power by moving the right leg infront of the left, that way only your arm is exposed, your shield remains covering your body and you use a minimum of energy.

Lunging repeatedly would very quickly tire you out, not to mention it leaves you quite exposed, possibly off balance, as you'd quite easily lose your footing in the mud, and means you break formation.
Interesting.

I'm not sure about moving the right leg forward, at least for the reasons you describe. You're going to run into the same kinds of torso rotations as with moving the left leg, and you'll have the same problems covering your body with the scutum (maybe even more so because you have to guard the right leg with the left arm). I think this would leave you teetering in a very weak position, and break formation just as much as with a lunge.

I'm certainly open to the possibility that these animations are not correct - they aren't researched at all, apart from me messing around in my room, trying to come up with something plausible. I'm not discounting your suggestion yet, either, I'm just not totally convinced.

Can you show me a picture that roughly illustrates what you're talking about (doesn't have to be Roman, anything will do), or describe it more thorougly? Perhaps I got the wrong impression from your description.