To be fair I would be very intimidated by someone swinging a weapon that can kill a horse with one blow
Gotta define your parameters better. Anything can kill a horse with one blow, provided adequate swing speed, or provided a sickly enough horse.
* and/or
“I want to stab that guy, but he’s way over there”
“I want to set that guy on fire, but he’s way over there.”
Great scene. Carter dismantling the dummy is very satisfying
What’s that on the left?
The mesoamerican version of a baseball bat full of nails
Or what happens when a society that doesn’t have metalworking wants to make a sword.
A small clarification: pre-Columbian Mesoamerica did have copper and bronze metalworking, after picking it up from contact with South American societies some time between 600 and 800 CE. The Nahuas (Aztecs) had bronze axes called tlaximaltepoztli, for example. Macuahuitls might have just been better at cutting than bronze blades, though. Societies that learned about ironworking mostly replaced their bronze weapons with it, after all
Sorry, I was just trying to emphasize the more “sword-like” rather than “club-like” nature of the thing, not impugn their technology.
Obsidian is still better at cutting than steel. Surgeons use it.
It looks like a Macuahuitl.
This is dumb
No, this is Patrick
No u
Staff weapon vs p90
Indeed.
You know how the joke goes. A Serpent guard, a Horus guard, and a Setesh guard meet on a neutral planet. It is a tense moment. The Serpent guard’s eyes glow. The Horus guard’s beak glistens. The Setesh guard’s nose…drips.
I think a more accurate depiction would be sword vs spear/halberd.
