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spears and long bows with arrows. Before battle they would put them in the ground to put bacteria on them so if it hit someone for instance in the shoulder it would be infected and the victim would have a slow painful death. This stratedgy seemed to work for them as they killed 1 quatre of the foot men with the nifected arrows. It adds up in scores if you count.

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