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<blockquote data-quote="Tarek" data-source="post: 4346907" data-attributes="member: 6661"><p>For that matter, most weapons apart from daggers, polearms, and the two handed swords, weighed between two and three lbs. Even the largest practical two-hander weighed no more than six and a half/seven lbs, and averaged close to four and a half to five.</p><p></p><p>Weight is always an issue when it comes to weapons that a soldier will have to carry around all day, every day.</p><p></p><p>I agree with Danny Alcatraz; Movies are terrible examples of how medieval combat worked. Blades snapping from a single blow from another blade just *did not happen*. Blades snapping after hours of combat when someone struck a rock hard, or wedged it into a tree stump and pulled just the wrong way to free it, that might happen.</p><p></p><p>More often, swords would become bent and have to be straightened, usually accomplished on the battlefield by bracing the sword against the ground and stepping on the bent portion until the sword was usable again. Soldiers and knights were trained to parry with the flat of the blade specifically to avoid chipping the edge.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tarek, post: 4346907, member: 6661"] For that matter, most weapons apart from daggers, polearms, and the two handed swords, weighed between two and three lbs. Even the largest practical two-hander weighed no more than six and a half/seven lbs, and averaged close to four and a half to five. Weight is always an issue when it comes to weapons that a soldier will have to carry around all day, every day. I agree with Danny Alcatraz; Movies are terrible examples of how medieval combat worked. Blades snapping from a single blow from another blade just *did not happen*. Blades snapping after hours of combat when someone struck a rock hard, or wedged it into a tree stump and pulled just the wrong way to free it, that might happen. More often, swords would become bent and have to be straightened, usually accomplished on the battlefield by bracing the sword against the ground and stepping on the bent portion until the sword was usable again. Soldiers and knights were trained to parry with the flat of the blade specifically to avoid chipping the edge. [/QUOTE]
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