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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wik" data-source="post: 5623141" data-attributes="member: 40177">Fair enough.  Then you should know just how tough the human body can be.  We can get into a long discussion about surface area of blades in penetrating injuries, but that's a bit too dark, even for a first aid weenie suchs as myself.Agreed.  Just speaking from my own personal experiences, which as I mentioned upthread seem to contradict your earlier assertions.  The human body is far less frail than you make it out to be.  Check out the story of the guy who just won a medal of honor in the US, for example.  He was shot twice in the legs, and kept going despite massive pain.  Then a grenade basically blew up in his hand, and he was still able to tie his own tourniquette and direct his men.  Granted, that was so badass they gave him a medal for it, but still - human body is tough.Yyup.  And the celts and scots threw cabers into the ranks to break those formations up, so that they could use their dudes armed with longer-reached weapons in one-on-one fighting where they had more of a chance.  Generally, length/reach is everything.  This is coming from a rather intense romanphile.  Can't help but notice neither of those weapons were knives.  <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=":)" />  But I get your basic point, there.Well, I ain't no Japanophile, but I'm gonna need to ask for a source on this one.  Warrior castes usually make it to a warrior caste for a reason.  And I've held a katana in my hands - those things aren't to be taken lightly.</blockquote>

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