Quote Originally Posted by pezhetairoi
I -thought- the short stabbing swords were far more lethal than non-phalangite spears. I mean, we have stories about how the phalangitai at Kynoskephalae were dismayed when the first casualties from the skirmishes before the battle came in and they were torn apart with gaping wounds so unlike the neat and often non-lethal puncture wounds of their spears... I mean, swords do major tissue trauma.
That story was from a cavalry skirmish I think, not of dead phalangitai. So it wouldn't be wounds from gladi but instead of longer cavalry swords.

I think.