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<blockquote data-quote="Thunderfoot" data-source="post: 3800581" data-attributes="member: 34175">Check posts - 8 &amp; 9.&nbsp; Its use was evolutionary, its continued use was due to effectiveness.&nbsp; Like I stated originally, when a military mined person sees anything being used as a weapon and can then translate that to a more effective version, you get a transition weapon, such as the grain flail/military flail, the pruning hook/the fauchard, the pitch fork/military fork, the scythe/the glaive and the sickle/the bill/the saber.&nbsp; All of these evolved into more military uses which (for the most part) required only a small amount of training to use.&nbsp; They stayed around because it was found that they were more effective against the emerging plat and mail technology that traditional weapons (spears, swords and such) were less effective against.&nbsp; Honestly, its hard to say if these would be more than a historical footnote if firearms (which more than ended the armor production of Europe) had been developed but 100 years earlier.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Thunderfoot, post: 3800581, member: 34175"] Check posts - 8 & 9. Its use was evolutionary, its continued use was due to effectiveness. Like I stated originally, when a military mined person sees anything being used as a weapon and can then translate that to a more effective version, you get a transition weapon, such as the grain flail/military flail, the pruning hook/the fauchard, the pitch fork/military fork, the scythe/the glaive and the sickle/the bill/the saber. All of these evolved into more military uses which (for the most part) required only a small amount of training to use. They stayed around because it was found that they were more effective against the emerging plat and mail technology that traditional weapons (spears, swords and such) were less effective against. Honestly, its hard to say if these would be more than a historical footnote if firearms (which more than ended the armor production of Europe) had been developed but 100 years earlier. [/QUOTE]

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