2020年12月3日 · The conventional picture of the pilum is that every legionary carried two (one heavier and one lighter) and would be launched as a massed volley at the century/cohort level. There were designed to get stuck in shields and bend on impact so as to be hard to remove and throw back. This would break...

2018年6月4日 · A pilum hitting a shield or armor and not penetrating could cause the point to deform or a bend in the shank immediately after the point. Overall, the pilum was designed and optimized for penetrating flesh (man and beast) and shields, to a lesser extent armor.

2017年3月27日 · The pilum was very much designed to KILL and to disrupt an enemy attack. It was meant to be thrown at short range, just before both armies clashed, in order to give the enemy no time to recover from that double rain of death. It was not meant to eliminate shields, it was designed to *penetrate* shields and still get the man behind.

2016年2月2日 · 1) did the Romans take the second pilum in battle? One hand of a legionary was holding a shield, the second a pilum, and where was the second pilum? 2) how did the Romans actually throw their pilums? All men at once? Such "fire" should have been inaccurate. Did their throw the pilums, by "fire by rank".

2013年1月16日 · Digital front-end: Pilium Elektra Dac, Pachanko Constellation Reference, SPEC RMP-UB1 Diretta Bridge

2016年12月15日 · The Roman pilum was never meant for long range, it was specifically meant to be a *heavy* javelin, thrown point-blank into an enemy formation to disrupt it immediately before a charge. For longer-range missiles, the Romans either used light infantry with lighter javelins, or slings and bows.

2014年1月7日 · The Roman ''pilum'' was a throwing spear, used to disable the enemy's shields by bending at the neck of the iron tip so that the spear could not be easily pulled out. The '''hasta'' was a thrusting spear used to knock horsemen off their horses in a cavalry charge.

2013年11月1日 · This is a topic regarding the Phalanx vs missle fire...both the Greek and Macedoian systems. The Greek system has a massive thick shield, the Aspis and...

After having read a bit about the strategic use and effects of Pilums as a standard in the Roman army. How they would throw their Pilums at the enemies' shields, rendering them useless (Pilums having a long soft iron spearhead, often with a weight …

2017年3月27日 · Pilum never meant spear. Let me reiterate, so pride doesn't confuse the meaning of words. The Latin word Pilum HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH SPEARS. Latin has a very specific word for spear: Hasta. Which is interesting in its own right, because they had a word for spear armed soldiers, Hastati.