AAAAUGH! Jarid, Jarid, Jarid!

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You know, as cool as these little things are in the game, I *still* can't find out anything about them.


Here's what I know so far: The Jarid is a Turkish weapon similar to the Moorish Assagai -a short, all-steel javelin with a small wide head.

That's it. Pathetic, isn't it? Wikipedia's got nothing, Google's got nothing, and in the era of the information age I can't find a SINGLE bloody picture of the damned things!

Any other weapons buffs out there that can help? :sad:
 
I had a look through my library, n I found a coupla references, but they were fleeting at best.

The best description was in a book called 'Moraghann's arms, and armour' where they refer to a short metal javelin with tripled leather flights used by light cavalry to attack better armoured troops, and also connotations that they were interchanged, or mistaken with the Roman Pilum.

Jez XxX
 
Well... it's a start, anyway.
Better pictures and dimensions would be good, because if I can get dimensions I can make them myself. :wink:
Unfortunately...

I don't suppose armagan ever comes to the off-topics forum, so it's not likely he'll send links to his sources...

Heck, he's probably seen him first hand in museums. :???:
 
Yes, jarids are fun when taking out calvary, just wait for them to lower their shield to attack you then fire, especialy since horses don't trample very well.
 
i just love the way you can have jarids and still have a shield, sword, and 2 handed weapon.
 
Not hard to do, actually. Although keeping the polearm with you after switching weapons is stretching it.

And javelins or axes instead of Jarids would be stretching it, too. But jarids, being carried in a case or quiver like most cavalry weapons since the days of Imperial auxiliaries, actually works.
 
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