Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-25447489-20150427023724/@comment-25931200-20150430152142

Recneps wrote: Samoja, aidan is right. Only a few of the people should have separate spears and javelins. Gondor, Rohan, and other cavalry places could have them, as that is one of the few times you would need a different spear You seem to be mixing cavalry lances with infantry spears, there were 3 types of spears(albeit lances came along in medieval period). Javelin was a throwing spear, they were a lot shorter, often less then 1 meter in lenghth, also Roman pilae had a soft tip that bent on impact (therefore making it hard to get out of the wound or forcing the oponent to ditch his shield now weighted down by a heavy pila), Second, and generally most commonly known type of spear is infantry spear, lenghthwise they vary but generally they were abouta meter longer then the soldier wearing them(so about 2,50 to 3 meters) some were a lot longer and those are often called pikes, pike can be one handed with a shield or twohanded depending on the lenghth. Third type of spear was cavalry lance, they did not really come into their own before the invention of a stirup(since there was no way for a rider to brace), before which cavalry was just armed with regular, maybe a little shorter spears, once lances came into play they were generally one shot weapon, expected to be shattered on impact after which the rider would break off(perhaps to grab another lance, remember battles lasted several days sometimes) they looked very different from regular spears, shape i am sure you are farmiliar with and they were next to useless as either thrown weapon or infantry spear. So there you have it, spear and javelin were very diferent beasts, even amongst spears there could be vast differences, and lance was a category all on it's own.