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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Silverblade The Ench" data-source="post: 4978754" data-attributes="member: 19083">1) "An inch of point is worth a foot of blade"as someone pointed out above, a thrust is much more effcient than a slash. It tires you less, it's much harder to block.what is theuse of wasting energy to cut someone's head off, when 1/10th the energy will get him just as dead?we're not fighting ombies in RL, you know!<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />2) the gladius is a very broad bladed wepaon, about 3 inches or more?a stab wound from that is almost always lethal. If you want to kill a man most efficiently, a broad, sharp stabbing weapon is the tool, not guns, or katanas. (yes a firearm is a better weapon, but horribly inefficient. ammo is expensive to make it takes modern nations to make cased ammo and when you run out of ammo, you're screwed ! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />)So, the gladius and some heavy bladed spears are the thingAnatomically, the breadth of the blade ensures you will severe something vital when used to stab. double edged means a cut on both sides, through arteries, liver etc.The gladius could also chop due to it's size (being heavier than most shortswords), but that was less useful except against say, a wrist. Later in the EMprie's history, Trajan, iirc, ordered the use of armour to protect the right arm of legionaries for the first time due ot that concern.Also note, spears were not the main weapon of the legions by Imperial times, the hasta was being replaced and diminished before the Emprie even started.Pilum were much more useful.<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    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />On the OP, I'd suggest that yes, making the gladius an improved form of shortsword with nastier crits or 1d6+1 damage would be an idea.</blockquote>

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