does anyone know...

[redrob]

any manufacturer who makes 'Pili Morales' in the form of a giant caltrop. I have seen models depicting them as a palisade (which I think is the wrong way of using them) But none in the form of a wooden hedgehog.
any thoughts anyone?

Rob

[dadlamassu]

Since each soldier carried two sudis (stake) it is surprising that the only ones I have seen come in the Warlord games plastic  Early Imperial Roman Scorpion sprue. 

There is debate about how they were used
a. palisade wall: unlikely as their shape means they would be easy to pull out
b. pairs attached in a cross to a beam to make a sort of cheval de frise
c. used as spikes facing out towards the enemy below the palisade.
d. used in threes in the construction of a hedgehog (giant - caltrop)
e. stuck in the ground at an angle toward the enemy as a hasty defence (maybe?)
They probably had a lot of other non battle uses!

The term Pilum Muralis (Wall Spear) implies a use of the sudis as in "d" above rather than the name of the stake itself.

[bluewillow]

First corps make metal sets