What did a Bugis warrior look like?

KuKulzA28 · 23rd June 2016, 05:24 AM

Anyone looking into SE Asian history will have heard of the Bugis people... traders, politicians, pirates, warriors... they had a great impact.

While today silat styles are known for parang, pisau, and maybe use of tjabang, and of course hand to hand - which makes sense in a civilian setting, and of course translates better to today's needs... in the past warriors used shields with spears, pikes, firearms, bows, pedang...

What did Bugis warriors look like? What were their typical sidearms, aside from badik and keris? What were Bugis pedang, parang, klewang, etc? Only one I've seen (in my limited experience) is the alamang. Did they have their own style of spears? What about their shields? Any tactics they were particularly known for?

23rd June 2016, 05:24 AM	#1
KuKulzA28 Member Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: between work and sleep Posts: 731	What did a Bugis warrior look like? Anyone looking into SE Asian history will have heard of the Bugis people... traders, politicians, pirates, warriors... they had a great impact. While today silat styles are known for parang, pisau, and maybe use of tjabang, and of course hand to hand - which makes sense in a civilian setting, and of course translates better to today's needs... in the past warriors used shields with spears, pikes, firearms, bows, pedang... What did Bugis warriors look like? What were their typical sidearms, aside from badik and keris? What were Bugis pedang, parang, klewang, etc? Only one I've seen (in my limited experience) is the alamang. Did they have their own style of spears? What about their shields? Any tactics they were particularly known for?