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<blockquote data-quote="Arrowhawk" data-source="post: 5817040" data-attributes="member: 6679551">I'll bet you dollars to donuts I can break your clavicle or as well as your radius and your ulna hitting you with a longsword on an exposed arm.&nbsp; I'll also bet my life you can crush someone's skull cased in chain mail with a longsword.&nbsp; Lift up your arms and let me hack your rib cage...I'll bust a rib.&nbsp; And now let's put that sword in the arms of an athlete like Ray Lewis or one of the guys who participates in those Strongest Man competitions.&nbsp; A person you might actually encounter on the battlefield and we'll see how many knee caps or elbows or hands they obliterate with a longsword that doesn't actually cut the skin.So with all due respect to your reenactment experience, it isn't actual battle.&nbsp; As such, I disagree with your suppositions and doubt you would be willing to test them in real life.&nbsp;&nbsp;I never said we needed another type of damage to worry about, so you're not disagreeing with anything I said.&nbsp; My main thrust in this thread was why doesn't a shortsword get to do slashing damage, especially considering a small longsword does and a dagger does.&nbsp; So please don't invite arguments where none exists.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Arrowhawk, post: 5817040, member: 6679551"] I'll bet you dollars to donuts I can break your clavicle or as well as your radius and your ulna hitting you with a longsword on an exposed arm. I'll also bet my life you can crush someone's skull cased in chain mail with a longsword. Lift up your arms and let me hack your rib cage...I'll bust a rib. And now let's put that sword in the arms of an athlete like Ray Lewis or one of the guys who participates in those Strongest Man competitions. A person you might actually encounter on the battlefield and we'll see how many knee caps or elbows or hands they obliterate with a longsword that doesn't actually cut the skin. So with all due respect to your reenactment experience, it isn't actual battle. As such, I disagree with your suppositions and doubt you would be willing to test them in real life. I never said we needed another type of damage to worry about, so you're not disagreeing with anything I said. My main thrust in this thread was why doesn't a shortsword get to do slashing damage, especially considering a small longsword does and a dagger does. So please don't invite arguments where none exists. [/QUOTE]

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