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Old 09-24-2009, 12:26 AM   #9
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Default Re: So how exactly do people fight with scythes?

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Originally Posted by NorphTehDwarf View Post
Is there anyone here who can explain to me how a human being would fight with such a thing?
You take it to the village blacksmith and get him to straighten out the tang. Then you have a long single-edged blade on a middling-short handle, all more-or-less straight. A war scythe is similar to a fauchard.

It's a classic improvised weapon for peasant uprisings, particularly in Poland.

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