[quote=@Monochromatic Rainbow]
[@Zebanamana]

Has he accounted for the bandits potentially having bills to unseat him? Many a knight found out that being pulled from his horse and having a rondel shoved through his visor was a pretty sucky way to go.
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He may have. I know he is one of the type who will wrestle during a melee and put a dagger into the armpit of an enemy. But regardless, I didn't plan to go through a battle post without there being casualties, and a billhook bandit would be a good way for one of the soldiers to go. I hope that despite the fact I am writing Eadwig as a planner doesn't come across as me writing him as some invincible Caesar who will go into battle with evenly stacked odds and not lose any men.

[quote=@Raineh Daze]
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Those would be remarkably prescient bandits...
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It may not be. It might not necessarily be a billhook, it could also be a scythe or a war scythe. When I was doing research on pole arms I saw that when farmers were levied they would sometimes have their scythes reforged so the point went forward like a spear but it is still sometimes curved. So it can hook cavalry men off their horses.