Talk:Condottiero/@comment-34012722-20180125092849/@comment-81.134.8.144-20180215164312

When I say large, I mean large for steel shields, which were usually small like bucklers. The improved steel working by the 16th century allowed targets to be a reasonable weight, yet still protective. The Indians (who had the best steel working in the world during the AoE 2 timespan) also used quite large steel shields.

Googling antique rotella shield will show some nice examples.

AoE3 has rodeleros as a unit available to the Spanish.