Are maces just a meme?

>It's an X weapon was a meme thread.
Do you get off on making claims like this? It's a weird fetish that you should stop.

Can we please stop using the word 'meme' in every fucking post? I don't even know what it's supposed to mean anymore.

Yeah just try fighting knight in plate armour without one you silly bastard.

For Veeky Forums every historical weapon is memes. Next time i swear to god that there will be post about hand being a meme

>Hahaha meme i called something a meme. Hey guys look at my thread where i call somethi g a meme hahahaha Xd

Sword is a great sidearm.
It's easy to carry with you and relatively versatile.
So it's pretty widely spread as a result.

It's a contextually dependent word that generally means in-concrete or of a false, contrived nature in most of said contexts.

I bet you're the kind of autist thinks language can degenerate.

they were pretty good for taking people alive

Maces were mostly a stop gap for heavily armorer knights against each other until early gun powder were it was heavily armored knights against infantry with maybe a cuirass. Completely useless unless against armored units, and the money for armor is better spent on Calvary who focus on flanking

Maces are specially designed to fight armored opponents.

Oh my god you stupid fuckwit. The Bible and the Illiad are not reputable sources, and even the fucking Illiad has almost all of the soldiers wielding spears, with only the warlords wielding swords.

The extreme blunt force and weight is meant to counter armored opponents.

Sometimes swords where held inverse to bash a foes helmet in with the pommel as the blunt force quickly dents steel and can easily cause internal damage.

fucking retard

this should have been /thread
the meme joke was funny for a while but new sincerity is the future of Veeky Forums discussion, stop your ironical kid humor.

>The Bible and the Illiad are not reputable sources
yes they are.
The weapons used and mentioned in the Illiad and the Bible are the common weapons of the time.
let me guess, you're not a historian?
>PSDs aren't evidence because they themselves cant be verified
Get out

Well, priests couldn't draw blood and sometimes they had to fight.

D&D meme

>MEME (n) an element of a culture or system of behavior that may be considered to be passed from one individual to another by nongenetic means, especially imitation.
What culture do maces belong to?
> MEME (n) an overused term, indicating a lazy or uneducated author who can't express themselves well.

>It's the most basic fucking weapon.
No, the rock and/or stick used individually are the most basic weapons. The mace, hammer, or axe would require a method of attachment for the stone head which took 10s of millennia to develop.

Swords were not "default". Sword smiths were a specialized talent. Wielding a sword required money to purchase the sword and specialized training in its use. The SPEAR was the default weapon for 100,000 years.

Agreed

>Yeah, in pre-history. Roman soldiers used swords.
You are failing something in school.

>MEME (n) a humorous image, video, piece of text, etc. that is copied (often with slight variations) and spread rapidly by Internet users.

Fucking quints mate, sorry but maces BTFO.

Why would you use an anti-armor weapon when you aren't expecting opponents in heavy armor? Most of the time Swords, Spears, and Bows would just fit the situation better because they're better at damaging light targets. That doesn't mean a mace isn't without it's uses, but it just means that it's uses are more specific.

That, and also it takes more strength to use effectively.

Look at the pic from OP. How do you hit someone with that and not draw blood?

But just last weekend I heard Veeky Forums opine on how swords were meme weapons because they couldn't deal with armor, and were just expensive show weapons.

Veeky Forums also knows axes are just pleb weapons. It loves maces and polearms though.

...reminds me, I need to update my calendar and put in a date to post a "polearms are memes" thread

Veeky Forums need its own /SQT/ to contain memery and shit posting

>maces are meme weapons
>swords are meme weapons
>spears are meme weapons
This is getting out of hand.

>armour is formed by hitting it repeatedly with a blunt object
>you can't deform or damage armour by hitting it with a blunt object though, that would be silly

The Romans were btfo by a bunch of unarmored tribesmen wielding clubs and spears. Maces are not memes. You are meme.

gimme more of dat jaguar warrior

Great post. Looks like we can wrap this up.

everyone fucking knows swords on sticks are the best weapons

Didn't you know? All weapons are actually just sticks and bits of wood that we've meme'd into effectiveness using our gestalt consciousness. We're like 40k Orks; if we didn't believe in the effectiveness of our weapons, they wouldn't work, and there is no physical component of them that actually does the job; just the belief. Every weapon is a meme.

swords were never the weapon of choice

So maces being holy is a D&D thing? Guess that makes sense. In RuneScape, all maces give a prayer bonus.

Warhammer is something neets play, it is not the name of a real weapon.

>swords
>default weapon for thousands of years
Absolutely not. The "default" weapon was the spear until firearms came along. Spears were even used in the 20th century during the communist revolutions. They're insanely cheap to produce and very good at killing people. To get through armour, you have maces and hammers. Later, you have guns. Most maces were at least a few feet long, some of them much longer—you know, for crushing armour using a highly sophisticated principal, apparently now forgotten by Veeky Forumsshits, called "centripetal force". You can probably guess what kind of armour was popular where the mace was designed based off the shape of the mace. Their cousin, the war hammer, became popular in the late medieval period for precisely this reason—big long stick with a heavy, pointy jam on the end. Your dudes are all wearing heavy tin cans? My dudes have can openers.

>Every weapon is a meme
>Every meme, a weapon

O man...o fuck........o shit................damn

>You are failing something in school.
To be fair, the roman example is correct.

> can't do shit for armor
While it can hit the head, hitting the helmet against the person

What is a "pre-historic" Roman?
When did said "pre-historic" Romans develop swords?

fucking retard

After many years swords became obsolete when armor got too advanced. Then knights switched to weapons like lances, picks, and maces. Since the swords couldn't do shit to knight armor and maces can by breaking ribs and shit with blunt damage.

>After many years swords became obsolete when armor got too advanced

Armor never made swords "obsolete". First of all not everyone always wore full plate armor. Second even full plate armor has gaps that you can thrust a pointy sword into.

Sounds like you're just projecting about being a limp-wristed noodle-armed faggot. I bet you can't even bench 100 pounds.

Why does he have two different visors?