Martial Arts Longsword Question

[Landwalker]

Although it's entirely possible that I'm completely whiffing on something here, Martial Arts pg. 227 lists the one-handed swing damage for a longsword as sw+1 cut. On pg. 230, the two-handed swing damage for a longsword is also sw+1 cut.

This is the only example I can find of a weapon that can be used with both the Broadsword skill and the Two-handed Sword skill not gaining +1 damage to its "swing line" when moving from one-handed to two-handed use (and Bastard Swords get +1 to both swing and thrust damage when used two-handed).

Is this a typo, and oversight, or a completely-correct stat combination that I just don't understand? And if it's the latter... why?

Cheers.

Edit: I understand that MA.219 characterizes a Longsword as "a light thrusting bastard sword designed for two-handed thrusting," but given that a regular bastard sword is ostensibly "designed for swinging" and still gets +1 thrust damage on the shift to two-handed use, it seems to me like the longsword would also get +1 swing damage even to it's "non-speciality." After all, there's a reason baseball players don't swing one-handed (even though, especially with aluminum bats, it's possible).

[Fred Brackin]

Originally Posted by Landwalker

Although it's entirely possible that I'm completely whiffing on something here, Martial Arts pg. 227 lists the one-handed swing damage for a longsword as sw+1 cut. On pg. 230, the two-handed swing damage for a longsword is also sw+1 cut.

To my understanding it's a granularity issue.

The longsword is an attempt to fit a real world weapon into the niche between the broadsword and the bastard sword even though there is no game mechanical niche for it to fill. The longsword should not be as good at swinging as the bastard sword. So it isn't. If it was there wouldn't be much of a niche for bastard swords.