And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
You don't walk in those, you use them to keep your feet in the stirrups. That's jousting armor. The better question would be "Why is he holding a crossbow?"
The pointy parts of the sabatons come off for walking. The are used to help keep your feet in the stirrups, like Uatu said, but are also useful for poking people in the eye.
Fearless in battle, but defeated by an industrial sized electro-magnet!
ReplyDeleteYou don't walk in those, you use them to keep your feet in the stirrups. That's jousting armor. The better question would be "Why is he holding a crossbow?"
ReplyDeleteExactly. Knights had a hasty way with archers and cross bow men in particular.
DeleteThe pointy parts of the sabatons come off for walking. The are used to help keep your feet in the stirrups, like Uatu said, but are also useful for poking people in the eye.
ReplyDeleteNice work on the armor.
And what are those tribbles doing on the crossbow?
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