there should be something like a "fist hit" that deals the least damage of all weapon or a secondary weapon or something, so if your 2-handed gladiator(which is usually the pirst to be attacked) scand still do something useful,or the crowd bonus from a downed glatiator to apply to everyone,because they are really useless
well, i played it just a little because it is pretty laggy on my computer, BUT the graphics are really cute and the mechanics are really simple. I like simple,but beatiful games.