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The Spear:
 
One of the oldest and most important of all hand weapons. Although you may hear little about it, the Celts favored spears as their main weapon in their far-ranging battles across Europe. The "La Tene" spear features a wavy blade and is modeled after the spears which defeated and demoralized enemies 2,000 years ago.
Featuring a lovely and fearsome flame-shaped blade of some 14 inches in length, and mounted on an ash pole of some seven feet in length, this is a spear which could have belonged to Irish heroes of legend. The widely-used leaf-shaped spear features an air of simple elegance and deadly intent.
the spear would normally be wielded in a wide sideways arc. this would provide multiple injurys to multiple enemys if the were packed close together. another way of wielding the spear would be a downwards arc this would be used for one on one confruntation and would inflict damage to multiple deadly areas of the enemys body if well wielded. the spear would rarely be used in a thrusting motion as this would need pin point accuracy to inflict serious damage.

<img:http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v492/Dobbo12345/untitled.bmp> La Tene spear

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2006-12-13 [Dumnorix]: Spears are essentially point weapons: They are unfit for effective slashing, and, in doing so, they lose their main advantage and virtue: reach.

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