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Roman legionaries using their comrades' shields to storm an elevated and fortified barbarian position
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A man only has so many javelins to throw! Funny enough, the Roman writer Vegetius suggests that throwing rocks by hand was a secondary skill that legionaries were trained in for various edge cases like this.