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spear faggot detectedTheColdTurtle wrote:Spears and longarms in general are almost always better
dont listen to the spear faggot's lies and deception, swords are the pinnacle of melee combat
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cool yes, practical ehh
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Sword slut detected, have fun being impaled before you can even reach me with your puny stickKel wrote:spear faggot detectedTheColdTurtle wrote:Spears and longarms in general are almost always better
dont listen to the spear faggot's lies and deception, swords are the pinnacle of melee combat
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They're both good.TheColdTurtle wrote:Spears and longarms in general are almost always better
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The point of swords is that they're pretty good in most situations. The point of a spears and longarms is that they're great in particular situations. Solution: Carry both.
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no sowrds are not kewl
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the point of both swords and spears is generally found at the endDrynwyn wrote:The point of swords is that they're pretty good in most situations. The point of a spears and longarms is that they're great in particular situations. Solution: Carry both.
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Swords are ok, but poleaxes are the king of badass.
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Swords are fun. Fighting with swords is also fun. I wish HEMA mace fighting was thing, would be pretty dope.
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^disDrynwyn wrote:The point of swords is that they're pretty good in most situations. The point of a spears and longarms is that they're great in particular situations. Solution: Carry both.
Carry a gladius and a couple javelins and you can fight any kind of foe
Gladius also doubles as home defence weapon and utility tool
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Swords are also useful as the thing you carry around town or whatever
like you don't live in a fantasy RPG so it's not really practical to go wandering about medieval paris in fullplate with a bec-de-corbin while you do your grocery shopping, same as those nerds who are confused about why bucklers exist when a bigger shield offers more protection and it's like "because you can't just carry a fuckin' scutum around with you while you go to the bar it's hugely impractical"
like you don't live in a fantasy RPG so it's not really practical to go wandering about medieval paris in fullplate with a bec-de-corbin while you do your grocery shopping, same as those nerds who are confused about why bucklers exist when a bigger shield offers more protection and it's like "because you can't just carry a fuckin' scutum around with you while you go to the bar it's hugely impractical"
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yeah swords are pretty good
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are you one of those warriors from hammerfell
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Aloraydrel wrote:Mace
Superior. Smash with one end. Spin it around to punch holes in armor with the other.
Also good. Go mining for ores in your opponents skull.
The biggest problem with bludgeoning weapons like that is the heft and unwieldly-ness. You need a shield of some sort in your other hand to defend yourself from people swinging swords at you. It's a trade-off. You can't parry sword thrusts and swings very well but neither can they intercept your swings very well with their sword. Trying to block a sword slash with a straight-hafted weapon like that is a good way to lose your fingers. Maces are good for wading in to superior numbers of poorer troops, they don't get stuck in HERETICS like swords or other blades can and they clobber right through whatever shitty leather/thatch/chain armor they might be wearing. You can still easily rattle someone's head with a mace but you need a smaller striking surface if you want to fold in plate mail and break the dude underneath. Hence the pick side, or the smaller strike surface of the warhammer.
With a sword you might impale one peasant but then they turn and fall with your sword stuck in them and you'd be scrambling to yank it back out of them while the others pummel you with whatever pitchforks, rakes, and quarterstaffs they have. With a mace you just cave in heads and break arms, shoulders, ribs, etc until they reconsider not paying their taxes.
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Pssht, curved blades. Whats the point?
Also > he doesn't go grocery shopping in full plate with his bec de corbin
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My worst enemy from buffalo used to make fun of me for using thrusting swords but he was a shitter who used great sword and halbers
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Thrusting swords like rapiers are a classy man's weapon, raphael from soul caliber basically drowning in pussy 24/7. Halberd guy will hack you up at range though unless you are careful
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The greatest weapon is your own body.
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I best him in pvpWyzack wrote:Thrusting swords like rapiers are a classy man's weapon, raphael from soul caliber basically drowning in pussy 24/7. Halberd guy will hack you up at range though unless you are careful
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This is correct. Errol Flynn your way through all problems.Wyzack wrote:Thrusting swords like rapiers are a classy man's weapon, raphael from soul caliber basically drowning in pussy 24/7. Halberd guy will hack you up at range though unless you are careful
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It functions on the same principal as other curved swords, weighted for slashes. It really depends on the example you're looking at. Some of them look like longer broadswords with the scoop, while others have a subtle curvature to them. Even the more straight examples usually have a protrusion on the trailing edge which gives more weight to the end. Eg:CosmicScientist wrote:Falchions may not fit into that. Whilst they can have the notable curved tip with the scooping slice out of their end, like in your picture, I'm not entirely sure if they were ever curved without being a new type of sword. They're pretty much ye olde machete.Timbrewolf wrote:>straight swords
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I used to do HEMA rapier stuff, it certainly feels classy to duel someone with. Shame I stop exercising like an idiot and lost a lot of my muscles.Wyzack wrote:Thrusting swords like rapiers are a classy man's weapon, raphael from soul caliber basically drowning in pussy 24/7. Halberd guy will hack you up at range though unless you are careful
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falchions are weighted to be fucking clubs.
they're less slashing weapons and more fucking club them weapons.
like seriously, falchions are super fucking heavy for a sword and are usually not even sharp. they're an hammer shaped as a sword.
they're less slashing weapons and more fucking club them weapons.
like seriously, falchions are super fucking heavy for a sword and are usually not even sharp. they're an hammer shaped as a sword.
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Uhhh, no?
They weigh about as much as a longsword does.
They weigh about as much as a longsword does.
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They weigh the same as longswords (not really tho, longswords are way lighter imo) whilst being significantly smaller.
they are meat cleavers.
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the guy has trouble chopping up a pool noodle for fuck sakes.
they are meat cleavers.
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the guy has trouble chopping up a pool noodle for fuck sakes.
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You're talking about the Conyers falchion, named after the best surviving example of its kind. It weighs just under 3lbs. The blade is 28.9" long.ColonicAcid wrote:They weigh the same as longswords (not really tho, longswords are way lighter imo) whilst being significantly smaller.
they are meat cleavers.
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It's hard to find a typical longsword because they vary so much but looking at modern samples an average of the same weight specimen has a blade length of 35" and also a longer handle to counterbalance it.
So you're right at least that it's a shorter sword, I wasn't arguing that, but it's the same damn weight. They're not "Super fucking heavy clubs" it's the same fucking weight dude.
Regardless the kind of falchion I'm talking about when I lump them in with other curved swords are the later examples, which initially looked like the picture I posted above (mostly straight, with a cusp to it) and over time became more and more scimitar like:
It's a product of cross-pollination between Europe and the Middle East. As you get to the end of the 16th century the falchion and scimitar are almost the same damn thing, with the falchion being more like a bigger heavier scimitar with a cusp than the cleaver of the 13th and 14th centuries.
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I'd use a crossbow because realistically I'd be a peasant and this would be my best option to fuck up the armoured trained knights.
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Wait, he made fun of you for using thrusting swords...when he used a Great Sword? Does he even know what a Great Sword was?Super Aggro Crag wrote:My worst enemy from buffalo used to make fun of me for using thrusting swords but he was a shitter who used great sword and halbers
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if you didn't use ricards rapier just GET OUT. JUST GET OUT NOW.
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Crag, just tell him that a Great Sword isn't for slashing and cutting(most of the time anyway). It is for stabbing, kinda like a spear in the form of a sword.Super Aggro Crag wrote:A guts ripoff
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>A sword so useless at being a sword you have to use it as a spear and then it's heavy and unbalanced!firecage wrote:Crag, just tell him that a Great Sword isn't for slashing and cutting(most of the time anyway). It is for stabbing, kinda like a spear in the form of a sword.Super Aggro Crag wrote:A guts ripoff
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oranges. I wouldn't say its heavy or unbalanced. A great Sword, lets take a Zweihander, is at its heaviest 3.5 kilograms, and its fairly well balanced. The real issue is its length. You can't use it in the same way you would use a long sword or any other type of sword. it is just to long. Its main purpose is thrusting.
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the only empire to do swords right was sparta.
short gladius / flexible armor / usable but light shield / disposable spear
throw your spear, use the shield to block enemy spears, cut them up with swords. all while doing it in a fast and graceful manner in your 0.0000000000000000000000001 cm thick copper armor
short gladius / flexible armor / usable but light shield / disposable spear
throw your spear, use the shield to block enemy spears, cut them up with swords. all while doing it in a fast and graceful manner in your 0.0000000000000000000000001 cm thick copper armor
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your allowed to be a faggot and still understand how to swordMalkevin wrote:Yeah but Spartans fucked boys in the arse.
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That's movie bullshit.John_Oxford wrote:throw your spear
Spartans had javelins to throw at people but kept their spears as they were essential to fighting in the phalanx formation.
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