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Published: 2019-02-11 08:20:03 +0000 UTC; Views: 4499; Favourites: 116; Downloads: 0
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this is about as close to a valentine's day design as I'm willing to make
That's a bad day right there, and no, i will not stop painting maciejowski cleavers
Vignetted shirt design available on the teespring shop teespring.com/maciejowski-infaβ¦
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Please never stop making cleavers.
Also on a sidenote, is there any """spiritual successor""" (=medieval equivalent) of the ancient sica/sika sword?
Ignore the "bent" roman variant, that's the spinoff nobody asked for, I mean the OG "curved" one used by dacians and illyrians (and tracians too, maybe).
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That itself seems like a successor, or parallel development to the kopis. I'm not sure, if the cleavers in the maciejowski illustrations are to be taken at face value that shallow forward sweep is as close as it gets, maybe not great for getting around shields, but it seems axes would have filled that role at the time, and much cheaper too.
I dunno, in short. If it was primarily useful for getting around the scutum it would be likely phased out in early medieval times
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I'm assuming it wasn't very effective anymore since it fell in disuse outside of arenas after the Great Illyrian Revolt. The roman legionaries suffered a lot of dismemberments due to those swords cutting limbs very easily, so the romans designed those armguards made of several flexible plates to counter that.
Thanks for the prompt answer!
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ay, but he's got flowers on his. flowery shields are nice too
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