Spears shit all over other melee weapons (aside from pikes aka even longer spears)
>b-but what if you run past the pointy end like in my anime :(
shortening the grip is not rocket science and spear was long to prevent people from closing the distance to begin with also when used with both hands it's fast as fuck so good luck with it and if the guy used it with a shield it meant he was standing right next to other guys with shields and spears so that would be some Nightcrawler tier bypass
fuck swords
fuck maces
fuck axes
>>1264482
There is a weapons board
>>1264482
>not halberds
OP is fag
>>1264482
t. Peasant
>>1264491
Halberds were made by homosexuals for faggots and that's a historical fact look who used spears
>samurai
>spartans
>knights before the lance was invented
>vikings altough that's not saying much
>greek hoplites
>romans
>pretty much everyone else
now look who used halberds
>some swiss faggots in between their gay orgies
>some literally whos no one gives a shit about
>>1264482
yeah, people just carried around all those other weapons to roleplay
>>1264503
Such peasants.
Just give up OP.
Your spear aint as long as my range.
>>1264511
They were sidearms. So are handguns yet you don't see soldiers talking about them - that's because they are unimportant fucking shit.
>>1264520
sidearms aren't unimportant you mong, otherwise people wouldn't have bothered developing so many different weapons
>>1264523
Oh yeah I heard so many stories about soldiers being saved because of their sidearms.
Oh wait I didn't.
>>1264508
>swiss army
>not the best in the world
oslo samurais used katana spears to cut through carbon steel
>>1264514
go to sleep old man, we shield and sword now
No weapon is good against everything. Spears get shit on by armor, axes, and cavalry when geting flanked. Which was often because spears are not very mobile. Spears, in order to be effective, need units to be bunched up, which makes them easy targets for arrows
>>1264533
>axes
I need some source for this
>cavalry when getting flanked
if you're flanked by cavalry your sword won't fucking help you either
>spears are not very mobile
that applied to pikes you downie not spears
>>1264539
vikings successfully raided German coasts, therefore axe>spear
>>1264551
not him, but spears were the most popular viking weapon
>>1264551
Wow the axe was good against unarmed people that's so convincing. Also they had spears idiot.
>>1264539
https://youtu.be/zhRCNLMzUMY?t=7m29s
Get shit on, nerd. Spears are long wooden shafts. Axes are tools used to cut wood. This shouldn't have to be spelled out for you...
>>1264594
And the rich ones had a spear,sword and an axe yeah.
So the elite still had fucking spears.
>>1264587
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2YgGY_OBx8
go back to playing Dark Souls and other shit meme games nigger axes were fucking dog shit used by some snow niggers who couldn't even deal with a bunch of half naked celtic fuckwts
>>1264587
cutting through a spear shaft is super hard. It probably happened but was not common.
And while spears did break, people carried shorter side arms
>literally knock spear aside with a sword swipe
>kill spearman
Sorry but rock beats sissor faggot.
>>1264524
>he didn't hear about all the paratroopers bayoneted and shot before they could squirm out of their chutes in WWII
sidearms save lives
>>1264614
>Some video of a gay dude doing twirls he saw in an anime
Pathetic. Any non-manlet would be able to cleave that spear right in two with a one handed axe
