Quote Originally Posted by zonks32
I dont care how high on drugs they are, their is only so much the body can take, blood loss for starters, you lose a limb, you are going to bleed to death very soon if there is no treatment, or any vital organ hit, muscles destroyed from any weapon will not work no matter how much the brain wants it to, even being stunned by a projectile.
I dont mind a challenge, but when a group of naked men run across a bridge and my men launch 400-600 javelins into them, plus the volleys of arrows, there will be substantial losses.
There may have been accounts of men pulling javelins from their chest and fighting on, but they would have been rare.
I think 2hp is fair, very high morale and attack, but armour on a naked man ?, I think the 2hp is enough to simulate their tolerance to pain.
Reality check. They aren't "naked men running across a bridge". These guys have good sized shields and helmets, which mean that proper defensive techniques will leave about as much flesh exposed to a javelin as would almost any other unit out there. EB didn't make these guys up. They existed and were renowned for ferocity on the battlefield. If nakedness was that much of an achilles heel, they'd have disappeared with nary a mention in the historical record.