League Of Augsburg - Fighting Talk

What a coincidence, I've just received a package from UCLA, from Prof Redwood.

After 2 years of on/off study on this subject, he now thinks this phenomenon is better described as knob rot. As it was a weakness where the branches joined the trunk that led to the rot.

Hope this makes everything a little clearer.

Bob

I have no evidence for it but pike rot sounds like an excuse made up by troops who had taken a couple of feet of their pikes to use as fire wood.

I recall spear shafts & the like where traditionally ash which when polarded grows into thickets of long straight poles of various diameters which had a multitude of uses including pole arm shafts, if you pick a pole of the right sort of diameter. It is also entirely possible to make pike shafts in two sections though I am not sure if it was done during the 14th-17th century's as it was in antiquity.

Ginger

My apothecary recommends Ye Olde Kanestan herbal poultice; err for my friend I hasten to add...

Aaaah... like an old friend back from the wilderness... my favourite topic has surfaced again... Pikes, pike rot, pike painting, pike points, pike length, number of pikes, pikeys, fresh water pike, Private Pike, Pike's privates, turnpikes...

That a length of wood with a sharp bit on the end could be the subject of such discussion, interest arguments...

How many times has the sharp end of a pike gone where the blunt end should have ought to!


Hooray for the Pike I say, Hooray!

reading through the trail this was a pretty witty thread and for that reason alone deserved a resurrection

Bravo!

hahaha!

Never the one to miss an opportunity to ---- a snook...

Having been castigated and praised at various points for gaudy pike painting, Ray Boyles recently sent me this link

http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b5 ... mes%201672

I thought it was a well known fact that some troops pikes were longer then others Some just had bigger spear heads at the end. I wonder if they were trying 'tactically' to make up for something.

Does it really matter how long a mans pike is, should thickness also count.

Cheers

Ed

It's not the size of the pike that counts, it's the motion of the pikeblock!