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Illustrations of history

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This magazine is for sharing artwork of historical events, places, personages, etc. Scale models and the like also welcome!

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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Is the dude in the bottom left throwing rocks? Never bring a rock to a javelin fight.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

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.