• @[email protected]
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    82 months ago

    You only get a short time with the pointy end of the spear and then once a sword wielder is inside your range, you’ve got an unwieldy stick and they have a sword. Good for stand off melee maybe but prob not. Go swords.⚔️

    • @Whorehoarder
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      222 months ago

      So you’re saying, once you lose your advantage you gain a disadvantage? This the kind of religious propaganda that put Atreides on the throne

        • @[email protected]
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          122 months ago

          Absolutely not. It’s the other way around there’s a reason any army get spears while swords are just a simbol for nobility.

            • @[email protected]
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              32 months ago

              I’m not an expert, are you? All the in dephts historical weapon stuff I met in my life has told me and confirmed me spears win against swords.

              • @[email protected]
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                22 months ago

                I didn’t say spears didn’t win against swords.

                Spears are easier to wield, it’s a pointy stick. It requires less training to use. Requires significantly less materials to make.

                They are a standoff weapon though, in close combat a sword or small bladed weapon wins. Different tools for different purposes.

                The information I’m parroting is from experts and historians and literature and everything I’ve read over my 4 decades, it’s common knowledge at this point and not really worth “arguing” imo.

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                  2 months ago

                  There’s this really annoying trend on the YouTube HEMA-type channels where they give unarmored and unshielded amateur college students swords and spears to “test” swords and spears and then crown the spear best weapon, no notes, no context.

          • @[email protected]
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            12 months ago

            I always find it fascinating the kind of things people will say because they saw a YouTube video once while ignoring all the actual historical context, like the Romans building their empire by fighting spear phalanxes with sword (and javelin) based legions.

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          102 months ago

          At close range the spear becomes a staff which can block the knife and give a concussion thwack.

    • sylver_dragon
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      102 months ago

      You only get a short time with the pointy end of the spear and then once a sword wielder is inside your range, you’ve got an unwieldy stick and they have a sword. Good for stand off melee maybe but prob not.

      Yes, but getting in close without getting stabbed is really hard.
      Here’s an actual example of modern HEMA folks giving it a lot of goes:
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLLv8E2pWdk

      • @[email protected]
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        62 months ago

        I fenced in college against people with slightly longer arms and just that minor difference put me at a huge disadvantage.

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          12 months ago

          I feel you. I know how many hits I can get in just stabbing at unexpected moments at long range with my sword, with a spear it would be plenty easier.