Why would you use this garbage over let's say a spear or bow and arrow?

>Why would you use this garbage over let's say a spear or bow and arrow?

Skall about swords

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Expensive, difficult to master and maintain.

If you aren't a noble or a professional soldier then there really isn't any reason to use a sword over an axe and spear.

There is no reason to use an axe either.

Close quarters combat, although a dagger or knife would work too and most troops would already have one for cooking and campcraft.

I wouldn't use that faggot furry for anything but genocide practice.

Lol you guys, why not use diplomacy instead :)

But an axe is not expensive, difficult to master or hard to maintain.

Effectiveness, that's another thing...

1. It's multipurpose, not just good at combat.

2. It has a lot of armor piercing qualities, can more easily punch through hard leather.

>leather armor

you take your historical knowledge from Skyrim right?

>revisionist history that fits his bullshit "muh viking blood" fantasy
>everything molded to fit this fantasy

pls no

> not using whip sword
> supersonic speed
> sharpest than any blade
Truly patricean weapon

Ideally you would use the sword as well as a spear or a bow.

Swords are versatile and highly practical for close-quarters combat.

Spelling's for plebs

I'd rather use a kitchen knife it's cheaper and about as useful in combat.

Isn't he Canadian.

He is living in Canada, he is a german citizen tho

A sword and shield beats a spear in most fights really.

That's exactly why it never happened right?

Only because the only thing you'd manage to stab is yourself.

Except when romans did it.

Ah the usual ''muh Romans'' response. Also one exception does not make it a rule.

The Romans facing the spears head on would always get pushed back, Roman formations, were more flexible

You can strike faster with a sword than you can pull a spear out of someone and strike someone else with it. This is critical in mounted combat especially.

>Implying leather was never used to armor limbs

Until they abandoned it later.

>implying it was

Thought he was from a nordic country?

He is a german that came to norway when he was 18 or something.
He met his future wife from canada there

Right around the time they started to suck oddly enough

>Why would you use this garbage over let's say a spear or bow and arrow?

I always wonder what kind of accent he has

What is cuir bouilli?

Would you marry a disgusting green-haired troll if it meant you would become rich?

>139.500 pounds a year
>rich
Your dad must not work in oil.

He does not, no.

Sucks
>tfw you dont care about bernie's "free college" cuz you dont have to pay anyway

why not? axes were readily available and very effective

>very effective

for chopping trees yeah

axes are fucking brutal as fuck

no he isn't. he's norwegian living in norway.

ever see a butcher's cleaver?

that is essentially what actual battle axes do, felling axes weren't used in combat except in extreme duress (lol randumb vikings jump me in the woods) unless they had their side metal reduced to make them lighter, making them useless for felling but pretty good at hewing flesh.

A thing that hasn't actually been proven to exist without it being attached to some other metal armour.

Yes all these great military units from history which used axes really showed it. Oh wait there weren't any.

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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varangian_Guard

a significant number of dudes in pic related have poleaxes.

Buff coats arent exactly brown tight leather armour

so... because real life leather armour doesn't look like the biker gang stuff you see in movies and videogames it doesn't count?

yes

The same guard that got rekt by turkroaches. Such fierce warriors.

I just want to point out that wood chopping axes and battleaxes are very different. Using a wood choping axe in combat is really dumb

why not?

Almost all soldiers carried swords with them for use as a side arm

>Using a wood choping axe in combat is really dumb
If you're a peasant conscripted into the militia, you may only have a choice between that and a flail

>le goalposts meme

peasant militias didn't exist. only examples that fit even close are peasant rebellions and random lynch mobs.

Blondie decapitated a brown haired, what neanderthal? This pic is Bit racial right?

They clearly showed that axes are dog shit.

yep more or less

Buffcoat was worn during the 1700 you fuk

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