The shields were round, and of wood, variously painted, some reinforced with iron bands, others with leather, some with small bronze plates.---Marauders of Gor, p 32
Torvaldsland Shield

"The round shield, concentric overlapping layers of hardened leather riveted together and bound with hoops of brass, fitted with the double sling for carrying on the left arm, was similarly unmarked. Normally the Gorean shield is painted boldly and has infixed in it some device for identifying the bearer's city.---Outlaw of Gor, p 21
Wagon Peoples Shield

The morning sun flashed from their helmets, their long tharlarion lances, the metal embossments on their oval shields, unlike the rounded shields of most Gorean cities.---Nomads of Gor, p 113
Turian Shield

“A net of linked chain, unhooked, dangled beside his helmet. His eyes bore the epicanthic fold. He was, I gathered, of one of the Wagon Peoples, most likely the Tuchuks.” Fighting Slave of Gor - Page 178

“I could see he carried a small, round, leather shield, glossy, black, lacquered; he wore a conical, fur-rimmed iron helmet, a net of colored chains depending from the helmet protecting his face,leaving only holes for the eyes. . . . I could not see his face because of the net of chain that hung before it.” Nomads of Gor - Page 10

“He threw the chain mask from his face, back over the helmet and laughed.” Nomads of Gor - Page 15

“The second rider had halted there. He was dressed much as the first man, except that no chain depended from his helmet, but his wind scarf was wrapped about his face.”Nomads of Gor - Page 14

“The helmets of the north are commonly conical, with a nose-guard, that can slip up and down. At the neck and sides, attached by rings, usually hangs a mantle of linked chain. The helmet of Thorgard himself, however, covered his neck and the sides of his face. It was horned.” Marauders of Gor - Page 73

“Above the shield was suspended a helmet, again reminiscent of a Greek helmet,perhaps of the Homeric period. It had a somewhat “Y”-shaped slot for the eyes, nose, and mouth in the nearly solid metal.” Tarnsman of Gor - Page 22

“. . . and the simple helmet, innocent of insignia, with empty crest plate, of curved iron with its “Y”-like opening, and cushioned with rolls of leather.” Raiders of Gor - Page 68

“I wore the heavy Gorean helmet, concealing my features.” Raiders of Gor - Page 82

“. . . and put on the heavy black helmet of the Assassin. . . .” Tarnsman of Gor - Page 182

“I unbuckled the helmet strap and gently removed the helmet.” Outlaw of Gor - Page 217

Slowly, singing in a guttural chant, a Tuchuk warrior song, he began to swing the bola. It consists of three long straps of leather, each about five feet long, each terminating in a leather sack, which contains, sewn inside, a heavy, round metal weight. It was probably developed for hunting the tumit, a huge, flightless carnivorous bird of the plains, but the Wagon Peoples use it also, and well,as a weapon of war. Thrown to low the long straps, with their approximate ten-foot sweep, almost impossible to evade, strike the victim and the weighted balls, as soon as resistance is met, whip about the victim, tangling and tightening the straps. Sometimes legs are broken. It is often difficult to release the straps, so snarled do they become. Thrown high the Gorean bola can lock a man's arms to his sides; thrown to the throat it can strangle him; thrown to the head, a difficult cast, the whipping weights can crush a skull. One entangles the victim with the bola, leaps from one's mount and with the quiva cuts his throat.

"Ah, yes, weapons," Kamchak was saying, "what shall it be-the kaiila lance, a whip and bladed bola- perhaps the quiva?"---Normads of Gor, page 123

A carved shaped club of wood or bone often mounted at the end stone or metal head of some sort,this weapon is usually two to three feet in length.

The eighty of us, then, the lancers and Hci's group, held our ground. This was not difficult to do given the narrowness of the trail. War clubs, shields and knives met. Then over the barricade, now deserted by the enemy, passing between Mahpiyasapa’s defenders, came our second group, that which, seemingly, had been held in reserve. page 431 book 18 Blood Brothers

They would wait. I rubbed my left arm and shoulder. I lifted the arm, and moved it. It was not broken. I had learned that the Kur shield could be as devastating a weapon as the war hammer of Hunjer. I wondered how many who had learned that had lived.chapter 15 Book 9 Marauders

Her man, carrying a mattock, was not far behind. Over his left shoulder
hung a bulging sack filled with what must have been the paraphernalia of
his hunt. Nomads of Gor page 1

Another popular set of weapons, as in the ancient ludi of Rome. is net and trident. Usually those most skilled with this set of weapons are from the shore and islands of distant, gleaming Thassa, the sea, where they doubtless originally developed among fishermen. book 5 page 189

“The other common peasant weapon is the great staff, some six feet in length, some two inches in width.Slave Girl of Gor - Page 139

“There were various matches in the pit of sand that evening. There was a contest of sheathed hook knife, one of whips and another of spiked gauntlets.” 228 Assassin of Gor - Page 120

A pair of thick leather gauntlets which have knive blades on them.

A pair of spike leather ball which are wore on the hands the spike can be very long.

“It would be difficult, once seen, to ever forget the massively scarred,misshapen countenance of Krondar, a veteran of many bouts with the spiked leather, and the knife gauntlets, inAr.”Guardsman of Gor - Page 94

“In the pits of Ar,” he said, “he has fought with the spiked leather, and with the knife gauntlets.” Fighting Slave of Gor - Page 318

Leather or Cloth strips that have spike coveringthe knuckles.

I saw that he had been given another knife, a tarn knife, of the sort carried by riders. In his right hand, ready, there was a tarn goad. To my surprise I noted, coiled at the side of his saddle, in four loops, was a whip knife, of the sort common in Port Kar, a whip, but set into its final eighteen inches, arranged in sets of four, twenty thin, narrow blades; the tips of whip knives differ; some have a double-edged blade of about seven or eight inches at the tip; others have astunning lead, which fells the victim and permits him, half-conscious, to be cut to pieces at the attacker's leisure; the whip knife of Menicius, however, held at its tip the double-edged blade, capable of cutting a throat at twelve feet.Assassin of Gor Book 5 Page 363

My tarn was locked, talon to talon, with a nonfaction bird; each was tearing at the other; the tarn goad of the rider struck me, almost blinding me with pain; for an instant my consciousness seemed nothing but a blinding shower of yellow, fiery needles; his tarn struck for me and I beat its beak away with my own tarn goad, cursing wildly; we turned and, held in the saddles by safety straps, spinning, we struck at one another, tarn goads like swords, splashing light about; and then we were past the ring and broke apart; my bird would have stayed to kill; but I drew it away. "On, Ubar of the Skies!" I cried. "On!" Assassin of Gor Book 5 Page 371

“One holds the stem of the plant in the left hand and, with the right, with a rence knife, a small, curved, two-inch knife makes a diagonal upward stroke.” Raiders of Gor - Page 27

“. . .the jungle is not a maze of impenetrable growth, which must be hacked through with machete or panga.” Explorers of Gor - Page 313

“. . .pangas two-foot-long, heavy, curve-bladed bush knives. . .”Explorers of Gor - Page 287

“The keen steel of our pangas smote apart thick vines.” Explorers of Gor - Page 382

“I seized up the panga which had been carried by the beast I had slain. It was heavy. I must needs use two hands to wield it.” Explorers of Gor - Page 437

“I will append one qualification to these observations pertaining to grapnels which is to acknowledge the giant, chain grapnel, and its relative, the grapnel derrick. The giant grapnel is hurled by an engine and then, either with the second arm of the engine, or by the same arm, reversed, drawn back with great force. This can rip away the crests of walls, tear off roofs, and such. If Cosians used them here they might have created gaps in the battlements. The effectiveness of such a device, however, given the weights involved,and the loss of force in the draw, is much compromised by the necessity of extreme proximity to the target.Also the defenders may be expected to free or dislodge the grapnel if possible.
The derrick grapnel is much what the name suggests. It is used from walls, dangled down, and then drawn up with a winch. If the wall is a harbor wall it can capsize a ship. If the wall is a land wall, it can, with luck, topple a siege tower.” Renegades of Gor - Page 265

“Light-armed troops hurried forward, slingers and archers, and javelin men, to keep defenders back. . .” Renegades of Gor - Page 259

“The women and children carried sticks and switches, the men spears, flails, forks and clubs.” Captive of Gor Page 249

“Several of them began to follow us, lifting flails and great scythes. Some carried chains, others hoes.” Marauders of Gor - Page 49

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