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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Numion" data-source="post: 1082129" data-attributes="member: 124">Statistically axes and swords do the same damage when criticals are taken into account. Swords have criticals twice as often as axes, but axes cause twice the extra damage on a critical.In normal games the sword ends up being better, though. Axe criticals are more likely to be wasted or in other words being overkill. There's no point beating the opponent to -34 when -11 will do just as well. A more important reason is that it's more fun to roll criticals more often, even if they're not as big as with axe. The most common weapon in our games is the two-handed sword. No one has ever used a long sword as their main weapon. My archer used it as a backup weapon for a while, but then got a mace for that job (after some, ahem, skeletons).Shields are never used. Offense is the best defense.Edited typo..</blockquote>