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Old 09-25-2020, 03:22 PM   #5
Polydamas
 
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Default Re: Oakeshott Typology Broadswords

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Originally Posted by Dewey View Post
Somehow, I had missed that the non-thrusting Broadsword thrust damage was crushing this whole time! Thanks for clarifying that.
Swords like that are rare, but they do exist in parts of Africa and South Asia, so they could not be thrown out. There are also some European executioner's swords with blunt points.

It would have been good to call the pointy version a "Broadsword" and use a more specific name for the version without an effective point. The resources available to Evil Steve in Texas in the 1980s just weren't as extensive as they were for the teams of authors writing Low Tech 30 years later.

Some swords in Oakeshott types X through XIII (and many smallswords and spadroons) might have an armour divisor with thrusts. They are pointy, but flexible, so not suitable for thrusting at hard targets.
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