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<blockquote data-quote="Xeriar" data-source="post: 523422" data-attributes="member: 4116">In a massive battle with a lot of people, do you really want to stick your sword (or any peircing or slashing weapon, really) in what amounts to an inch of rock?&nbsp; Plus any helmet involved...&nbsp; Beyond the fact that it's the easiest to defend.If your weapon gets stuck in combat you're in trouble, plain and simple.&nbsp; Bashing people over the head was generally a bad idea.&nbsp; A lot of protection goes to the brain on all sorts of levels.The torso isn't as bad, but can have similar problems.&nbsp; In the mock combats I was in I usually got people's arms first (I'm rather tall) - I could only get to the torso if they weren't paying attention (which would probably not be so likely if our lives were at stake <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":-)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :-)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":-)" />.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Xeriar, post: 523422, member: 4116"] In a massive battle with a lot of people, do you really want to stick your sword (or any peircing or slashing weapon, really) in what amounts to an inch of rock? Plus any helmet involved... Beyond the fact that it's the easiest to defend. If your weapon gets stuck in combat you're in trouble, plain and simple. Bashing people over the head was generally a bad idea. A lot of protection goes to the brain on all sorts of levels. The torso isn't as bad, but can have similar problems. In the mock combats I was in I usually got people's arms first (I'm rather tall) - I could only get to the torso if they weren't paying attention (which would probably not be so likely if our lives were at stake :-). [/QUOTE]

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