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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.⚔️
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
I’m just saying you better be hot fire with that spear. Otherwise you’re getting cut.
Absolutely not. It's the other way around there's a reason any army get spears while swords are just a simbol for nobility.
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.
The Romans swords were not actual swords.
They also had shields and that changes things a lot.
Ugh.
That reason is price to produce and skill to wield my dude
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.
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.
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.
Well my anedoctal evidence is diametrically opposite to yours.
It's time to invoke the sacred sources.
Your sacred source might as well be what I just said, so cool thanks.
At close range the spear becomes a staff which can block the knife and give a concussion thwack.