Quote Originally Posted by Panache View Post
In the evolution of sword fighting the point became far more important than the edge. With this blades became lighter and therefore much faster to wield.


Jamie
Well...the difference between one-on-one combat and fighting en mass.

Assuming that those big edged weapons worked better when you were wading into a mass of opponents and swinging it like a scythe although I can see how you'd be leaving yourself very open at the end of each sweep. The anti-armour/anti-cavalry concept sounds much more plausible.

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AA