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Post by Deleted on Oct 28, 2019 3:20:19 GMT
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Post by AndiTheBarvarian on Oct 28, 2019 4:28:46 GMT
A man can have a dream! (and at least there are colichemardes and flyssa swords )
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Post by tsmspace on Oct 28, 2019 5:21:32 GMT
just thinking out loud, but that makes me think it might have been somewhat common for people to show up to battle without knowing anything about battle, and just wearing and carrying things that are definately wrong. Like, bringing a sword or armor that ISN'T going to work right, but they just don't know any better. Medievil battles might have been often between two sides that don't know anything, with all kinds of shenanigans. Knowing something about battle might have been uncommon enough, in some places, that when someone who DID know something showed up,,,, the whole place turned into one country.... (theirs) Medieval battles would be occurring relatively late on a continent where it's people have practiced organized war for over 2 thousand years. To say that the two sides in the relatively advanced medieval era battle would "not know anything" about appropriate weapons and armor is pretty silly. what if their name was "patsy" ,,, and they were like "you know,,,, I want a sword mama". "oh, come on honey, what are you going to do with a sword...."
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Post by tsmspace on Oct 28, 2019 5:22:36 GMT
The opposite of a machete is a smallsword. I see more similarities between a machete and a seax than a smallsword and a seax. So where does the smallsword machete fit in? Blade geometry has to be appropriate for what you're cutting. I've watched someone cut firewood with a machete and it was both painful and amusing. a seax looks more like a bowie knife to me,,, with a machete reminding of a small sabre, and a small-sword reminding of a miniature spear.
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Post by AndiTheBarvarian on Oct 28, 2019 5:32:52 GMT
Seaxes usually had thicker blades than modern machetes and some of them look a bit like bowie knives without the crossguard. But many of the larger seaxes have also similarities to machetes. That's my own seax, a bit bowiesque. I'd use it like a machete because I fear to lose my fingers if I'd try to thrust into a heavy target.
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