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Originally Posted by safisher
I've explained that these weapons were used in armored combat. I pointed to fighting books from the period supporting that assertion. You still want evidence. I'm really at a loss as to what it is will satisfy your demands.
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You effectively pointed to a whole shelf or a whole library of books and claimed the evidence was in there. IT would be more useful if you could at least point to a book, chapter or page.
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Originally Posted by safisher
But, let me try. I'll give an example from history, the battle of Morgarten. This is an actual battle in the early 1300s involving peasants with halberds (that is, yes, swing cutting weapons) slaughtering knights in armor. There are many interesting bits about this battle, but for our purposes, here's the key information:
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According to
Low Tech and other
GURPS books the halberd has two other damage types modes in addition to sw/cut.
Also the quote you supplied mentions mail armor, while the subject of this thread seems to be plate armor.