>Can cut >Can chop >Can slice >Can stab >Can bash and pummel >Can half sword it against armored opponents >Extremely durable >Well balanced >A sign of wealth and power >Aesthetically pleasing
How can axelets, crossbowniggers, katanafags, and spearpoors even compete?
>how can crossbowniggers even compete? by shooting you in the face with a bolt from yards and yards away
Justin Cooper
Halberd master race
Brandon Brooks
smallsword kills it
Anthony Edwards
Everything you listed is true for the japanese sword but "extremely" durable (they were pretty durable for the standards of their time though). In the end the longsword is just another sword...
Connor Gonzalez
>train your whole life >finally you get to fight on a real battlefield >some toothless peasant shoots you with a crossbow
Ryder Jackson
Fun fact, the first kill made by a British soldier in World War 1 was with one of these
>Can cut >Made for choping >Can slice >Can split >Can bash and pummel >Can be used as hammer and beat armored oponents into compact shiny ball >Definition of durability >Mass centered in one end so you can swing with full corce >A sign of force and power >Practical to one last bit Swordfags btfo to your medieval Commiefornia
Just imagine it >Be you >Rich and wealthy in your bling bling armor >Riding on your gucci horse >OCing your bling bling latest Armani sword >Some illiterate villager spears you down from horse >Second illiterate villager beats you to a pulp with blunt side of some old rusty axe >bling bling