[Low-Tech] Material or quality

[Peter Knutsen]

Originally Posted by DanHoward

There is no such thing as a sword "evolution". The kinds of swords used on the battlefield have changed very little for thousands of years. No sword can cut through armour and the only sword that can stab through armour are specialised weapons such as the estoc/tuck. Whether armour was common or not had little influence over which swords were chosen by soldiers. If you chose a sword to fight someone in armour then you were likely to lose. Polearms were king on the battlefield. A sword is just a sidearm, like a pistol in modern warfare.

So you're saying that a broadsword (what we fairly normal roleplayers understand as a broadsword) is as useless against an armoured foe as a rapier (what we fairly normal roleplayers understand as a rapier) is?