12-18-2018, 12:56 PM | #21 |
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12-18-2018, 01:26 PM | #22 |
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Re: Spear vs Sword
Pikes and spears are different weapons and, while some limited overlap existed, they were mostly used in different ways at different times, with different mixes of other weapons.
Pike and crossbow, or pike and shot, functioned very differently from spear and shield wall with short sword or pilum as backup.
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12-18-2018, 02:20 PM | #23 |
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Re: Spear vs Sword
The primary advantage that seems to come from two-handed spear does seem to be the ability to switch to Staff pretty quickly. Of course, you can further modify a spear to do horrific things to people as well. For example, you could give a spear a barbs, a butt spike, a hook (it can be swung using Staff), and prongs. Instead of a butt spike, you could do a kusari, since you would be intending to use it two-handed.
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12-18-2018, 03:10 PM | #26 |
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Re: Spear vs Sword
If we're talking the late middle ages onward in Europe, you had to be exceptionally poor to not be able to afford a crap-sword.
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12-18-2018, 03:19 PM | #27 | |
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12-18-2018, 04:52 PM | #28 |
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Re: Spear vs Sword
Actually, I would suggest that the staff was the most versatile weapon ever invented. Towns would peacebond swords, they would not look twice at a staff.
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Tibia injuries: 98 Skull injuries: 97 Forearm injuries: 69 Upper arm injuries: 21 Torso injuries: 0 Thigh injuries: 0 It obviously doesn't include soft tissue damage but we have a sample of hundreds of injuries yet not a single one on a torso or thigh. It suggests that torso armour was effectively invulnerable to penetration at this time or that nobody ever aimed for the torso or thighs.
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12-18-2018, 05:08 PM | #30 |
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Re: Spear vs Sword
Which explains why fighters all over the world for thousands of years carried staves as a backup weapon and not swords.
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