Hey fuck swords get yourself one of these instead. It's interesting to note that the axe head is getting progressively smaller were halberds used predominantly as stabbing weapons so the blacksmiths decided to marginalize the axe since no one used it anyway?
And fuck every one handed weapon too by the way.
Well sure, if I'm going to battlefield or a duel and I can only choose a sword or a polearm, the latter is the better choice. But why not both? A sword is easy to carry on your side and can be useful when your enemy gets too close or you lose your polearm.
>>1394694
>Well sure, if I'm going to battlefield or a duel and I can only choose a sword or a polearm, the latter is the better choice.
But then again, there are the zweihänders...
>>1394697
No one used that meme tier shit in duels.
>>1394705
Bullshit, dueling was one of their main uses. Why do you think there are all those treaties about 1 on 1 fight for them?
If anything it's polearms noone used in a duel.
>>1394724
>dueling was one of their main uses
source would be nice
>>1394705
They were designed for duels..
>>1394733
Yes I'm sure Landsknecht were expert duelists.
>>1394745
Yes they were
That was their training
>>1394747
Wow a training sparring every single military unit in history had means they were duelists I guess gladius was a duelist weapon as well dumb underage fuck.
>>1394751
Landsknecht specialised in sword handling technique
>>1394753
And they were battlefield troops not duelist you idiot.
Gotta love how angry we can get about archaic weapons on 4chan.
>>1394766
Fuck you, Pikeboy.
>>1394766
It's the history board, we get agnry about anything archaic.
>>1394731
Achille Marozzo has a whole section of his dueling treatise dedicated to two handed swords.
Alfieri, Di Grassi, and many other italian masters taught duel with those.
Pic related comes from Marozzo, you can see by the hilt's length that those are zweihander sized swords.
