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7135171 No.7135171 [Reply] [Original]

When will swords come back as the popular weapon for protagonists? Polearms and spears have been in the sunlight for too long. We need a return to form.

>> No.7135183

Do you like a nice shiny sword, OP?

>> No.7135343

>>7135171

The spear is the greatest weapon,it is the most human of weapon.

>> No.7135414

>>7135343

Lances are better than spears.

>> No.7135425

>>7135171
since when do protagonists fight like its some action movie? are you reading genre fiction or something?

>> No.7135453

>>7135171
>polearms
What protagonist runs around with a fucking halberd?

>> No.7135481

>>7135453

The best.

>> No.7135492

Polearms/lances/etc. have been the choice weapon of RL history for thousands of years. Swords were sidearms that somehow got way more exposure in fiction.

>> No.7135496

>>7135414
There's a difference?

>> No.7135532

>>7135496

It's like asking if there's a difference between a pistol and a shotgun.

>> No.7135541
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7135541

What the fuck are you even talking about, OP?

>> No.7135544

>>7135453
I want an answer to this too

>>7135496
Lances are much longer and aren't thrown afaik, they usually refer to either what infantry used against cavalry charges, or what cavalry charged each other with

>> No.7135635

Can /lit/ recommend a book with spears in it? Preferably longer ones like those used by the Macedonian phalanx/ Spanish tercio.

>> No.7135676

Pretty sure that the quixotic don used pole arms

>> No.7135710

>>7135635
Herodotus
Thucydides
Xenophon

>> No.7135743

>>7135710
Thanks for the suggestions, I'll give it a look. I must say that I was looking for really fucking long spears, and the greeks used ones that were one handed. Do you know of a text about Pyrrhus of Epirus? That's kind of what I'm looking for.