In a line formation your primary concern is to protect head and torso. Considering equal reach, a strike at the legs is unfavourable (the target is farther and with less lethality)

As someone who always struggles to keep its country's economy in the black I'd like to know your secret. Like I can't even play a few years as Portugal because I immediately start spiraling into debt

Thank you for the reply 😊

You write that there's a broader trend towards heavier armour in Italy compared to mainland Greece. Is there a consensus as to why this is the case?

I'd buy that book.
Any chance you'd put an orange cover? 😁

What articles triggered the increase?

Afaiu that still makes it vegetarian (but not vegan)

Also 1000 extra points for the cover being in orange! Curious about the choice as I wouldn't normally associate that colour with renaissance

If you need someone to help you finish it give me a ring

What's your stance on translations?

Probably out of scope but I've seen a fair share of online discourse about how seriously we should be taking Machiavelli

Thanks for your blog post.

Surprisingly for all the issues ASOIAF has, it was the first time I was exposed to the "being a good warrior doesn’t make you a good ruler" concept and given the show's popularity I'm surprised it didn't spill out into more media

Huh, I've always heard the opposite argument: that to avoid collapse you need to keep the populace happy with bread and circuses

Be welcomed

Since we are in the business of being pedantic:
> What did pre-gunpowder societies use for crowd control? Spears.

Spears AND halberds 🙂