Because maces: >Bypass armor >Instantly break bones >Easy to use >Can put some spikes on them if you want to pierce better >Cool aesthetics >If you're transported to the stone age you can transfer your knowledge to club skills
>Bypass armor
A mace doesn't bypass armour. It just does more than a sword against it >Instantly break bones
An equal swing with a sword would chop the entire arm off (if wearing armour a mace wouldn't break your bones so easily) >Easy to use
Sure. But it's also a lot slower to strike with than a sword, and has less reach in general. >Cool aesthetics
Not as cool as swords
>arm-chopping is anime shit
Not it isn't. A sharp sword you lop off your arm real easy with a good swing >how is a mace slower than a sword?
All the mass of it is on the end of the stick. Grab a hammer by the handle and swing it around
Then grab the hammer head and swing it. Way faster
The idea people have about maces being blunt is mostly wrong. In the late medieval when everyone was wearing heavy armour, the maces are like pick-axes where they can puncture through the armour.
Yes it will. The majority of weapons used by soldiers throughout history have been polearms rather than swords. A lot of that was due to the cost of producing weapons, but if swords had offered some radical advantage they would have been used instead.
the only part you'll touch is the steel moving at a very face pace, if you try to grab the pole you have already moved into the swing and you are fricked. seriously try this and you are dead.
the problem with the halberd sufficiently injuring someone with a slash takes a lot of strength, and stabbing someone predicates the downtime of dislodging the weapon. halberds or spears are probably best for one-on-one or if your group outnumbers the other.
I can understand thinking this if you've never actually held one. Really long swords and pole weapons aren't super heavy, and are typically well balanced so it's not like swinging a sledgehammer.
I only remember that the anime shows the nipples of 2 e-girls and that some anons got mad about the main girl (the one in OPs pic) getting raped in the novel
I hate you, stupid anime posting virgin.
Why do you think that when Maces are inferior to Swrod in every single way, except when fighting someone in armour.
Because maces:
>Bypass armor
>Instantly break bones
>Easy to use
>Can put some spikes on them if you want to pierce better
>Cool aesthetics
>If you're transported to the stone age you can transfer your knowledge to club skills
>Bypass armor
A mace doesn't bypass armour. It just does more than a sword against it
>Instantly break bones
An equal swing with a sword would chop the entire arm off (if wearing armour a mace wouldn't break your bones so easily)
>Easy to use
Sure. But it's also a lot slower to strike with than a sword, and has less reach in general.
>Cool aesthetics
Not as cool as swords
arm-chopping is anime shit. also, how is a mace slower than a sword?
>arm-chopping is anime shit
Not it isn't. A sharp sword you lop off your arm real easy with a good swing
>how is a mace slower than a sword?
All the mass of it is on the end of the stick. Grab a hammer by the handle and swing it around
Then grab the hammer head and swing it. Way faster
The idea people have about maces being blunt is mostly wrong. In the late medieval when everyone was wearing heavy armour, the maces are like pick-axes where they can puncture through the armour.
The real bullshit is spears not getting any attention. A spear will always win in a sword vs spear fight.
lol no
Yes it will. The majority of weapons used by soldiers throughout history have been polearms rather than swords. A lot of that was due to the cost of producing weapons, but if swords had offered some radical advantage they would have been used instead.
>A lot of that was due to the cost of producing weapons
If by "a lot" you mean "all" then you might be right.
in formation yes, not one on one
Romans used swords and mogged a bunch of spear using armies from gallia to greece
I agree. It sucks that the best weapon is always a long sword.
lmao dumb homosexual
mace and swords are both mogged by the CHADberd
>Enemy holds it still with one arm and bypasses its effective range, stabbing you while you're helpless
WOOOOOOOW, HOW WAS I SUPPOSED TO KNOW?
>trying stop a two-handed thrust with one arm
enjoy being knocked to the ground and immediately dying moron
the only part you'll touch is the steel moving at a very face pace, if you try to grab the pole you have already moved into the swing and you are fricked. seriously try this and you are dead.
the problem with the halberd sufficiently injuring someone with a slash takes a lot of strength, and stabbing someone predicates the downtime of dislodging the weapon. halberds or spears are probably best for one-on-one or if your group outnumbers the other.
>a lot of strength required to inflict deadly injure on someone with sharp axe head on the end of a pole
I can understand thinking this if you've never actually held one. Really long swords and pole weapons aren't super heavy, and are typically well balanced so it's not like swinging a sledgehammer.
>jack of all trades
>chad
>mogging anything
>Amored enemy
Hammer
>Unarmored enemy
Hammer
>*have the real fight while meleetards wave sticks at each other*
I only remember that the anime shows the nipples of 2 e-girls and that some anons got mad about the main girl (the one in OPs pic) getting raped in the novel
Stop being homosexuals, put those puny tools away and fistfight
fist fighting is for idiots.
Arguing which weapon is better is for idiots