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 …

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. …

2017年3月27日 · Why didn't the Romans ever adopt any methods of throwing their pilum farther and/or more accurately than can be achieved with only arm-strength?

2016年2月2日 · If replace javelin with pilum, shield with scutum and sword with gladius - we would have a roman legionary. Then remember the battle of Pydna and you can imagine the result. …

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 …

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'' …

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It was said that pilum got lighter after the 1st century CE. Since the pilum was tossed away, and they weren''t used against plate steel arnmor, iron for its lower cost it seems to me would have …

Bending was a nice side effect but certainly did not always happen, especially because there was a LOT of variation in pilum heads. Some were short and thick. The shield-removing capability …

2013年11月1日 · Appian. Although the phalanx didn't break to the Roman Pilum and arrow fire at Magnesia (until the were caught between their own elephants) they did retreat due to the …