Does anyone know the advantages of a sickle or scythe assault weapon? I understand that they corral a straight blade away from your body, but I want to know why ancient people favored them.
Can’t find any links or sauce on this, really.
Sickle and scythe
John Myers
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Nathan Moore
They didn't favor them. It was a weapon of convenience, a readily accessible tool they already had on hand.
Benjamin Nguyen
Also, before anyone comments on the “assault” bit... that was a joke making fun of Tide Pod Hogg.
Colton Garcia
So, threshing was the only reason they had them?
Jackson Butler
The war scythes blade was not at 90 degrees but straight op
Joseph Phillips
you killed a thread for this
Dominic Moore
I asked a question, asshole.
>oh, no someone isn’t as smart as the fucking asshole that probably has no information
Yes, a question was asked in a thread, fucktard. Go back to another site where the cocks flow into your mouth.
Luis Lewis
put hammer on it and it'll kill millions of people
Anthony Martin
>Does anyone know the advantages of a sickle or scythe assault weapon?
The advantages are that it's something long you can poke assholes in horses with. Do you think farmers could afford real weapons? Pfft.
Andrew Barnes
That has been established ITT, but other cultures chose them. That is my question.
Read the thread before you respond with female mouth spouts.
Jose Lewis
>but other cultures chose them
Name three.
Luis Butler
Commies, Reapers, and Scythians
William Parker
Do you mean sickles and scythes specifically or just inward-curving knives in general?
Sickles and scythes were mainly improvised weapons that were grabbed by peasants because it was the closest thing they had. Your normal farming scythe or sickle isn't that great, but like many other farming tools, they became more and more weaponized to the point where they became fully fledged weapons in their own right.
Jace Bailey
Polaks used scythes during some rebellions. As I imagine did other peasants. I can't recall many ancient peoples that favored them. The Thracians and Dacians (and Romans, apparently chiefly among their naval marines) did employ the falx but that's not a grim-reaper scythe. It's just a slashy boy with a forward curve, which I believe has some properties that lend itself to partcularly brutal cutting as evidenced by the falx/falcata/kopis/machiara/kukuri/Shotel/ect.
Aiden Moore
If only there was a thread where people could ask questions? Hmm.
Kayden Roberts
they look cool on my fury warrior.
John Myers
uba-buba : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosynierzy
Robert Hughes
Correct. When at all possible, they would actually reforge the blades to make them into a weapon
Wyatt Campbell
>yfw chinese micropenis scythey boy has killed 10 times as many people as your favorite obscure halberd
en.wikipedia.org
note its the first chinese military weapon *NOT* used for hunting or agriculture
Hudson Bennett
A sickle or scythe as you imagine it honestly isn't a good weapon at all. It has one edge and it faces you. It's effective only at a very specific distance, and the blade doesn't really carry the weight to cut deep into anything fleshy. Your best bet would be to modify it into sort of a spear.
Lucas Carter
>assault weapon
Media buzzword that keeps getting shoved into laws by assholes, there's nothing assault about any weapon until it is used in an assault.
So stop using it.
Anyway if a sythe is used as a weapon it's cause there's nothing better (such as a spear or poleaxe) around. And to use it most effectively as one you have to mount the blade so that it's in line with the handle.
Carson Mitchell
>oes anyone know the advantages of a sickle or scythe assault weapon?
they're available to old world farmers and easily convertible into a real weapon, similar to a spear or halberd, by readjusting how the blade is attached to the handle.
Jordan Reyes
lol buttblasted brainlet spotted
Bentley Edwards
Tyler Murphy
Aaron Ward
Underrated
Xavier Perry
it's a farming tool.
Andrew Cruz
The guy on the left looks like an actor but I can't remember who.
Asher Sanders
Nolan Brown
Probably the clumsiest bladed weapons I own. Keep meaning to get a new snath for this one, but keep putting it off.
Lucas Young
The other one.
Owen Allen
>farming tool unless battle scythe design
>easy as fuck to use with a basic level of effectiveness
>super effective VS unarmored and lightly armored targets
So simple even skallagrim can use one to surprising effect
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Luis Gonzalez
There is literally a thread for this stupid shit. Gtfo of my board