Defend yourselves, swordfags.
You're a cancer on the weapon system.
Worse than , allah forgive me for uttering such a nasty word, snipers.

Swords are sidearms, just like pistols
Just like revolvers, katanas are also the technologically inferior weapon normies like because rule of cool

>>715360726 (OP)
But like everyone who likes swords knows this already. Reach is always the best advantage you can have, otherwise we would not have had greatswords, or we would not have logically concluded to make firearms.

>>715360726 (OP)
both lose to guns, to bows even

>>715360726 (OP)
but the polearm is the sniper rifle of melee weapons

>>715360726 (OP)
A sword you can take anywhere, how are you going to go about your daily business while holding a polearm the whole time?

>>715360726 (OP)
My sword would just chop your polearm in half when you try to poke me. A subtle rapier is the best of all weapons, or perhaps a flamberge

>>715360726 (OP)
swords are cooler and if you want to be practical about it you'd pick a bow or crossbow
polearms are a cheap and effective solution but the best at nothing. Truly a weapon fit for the peasant masses

>>715361012
love me spears
but this is true
it is always better to kill the enemy without getting killed

>>715361234
>if you want to be practical about it you'd pick a bow or crossbow
If you want to be practical, hand your men a long pointy stick that takes no time to manufacture, no resource or skill to repair, and takes zero training other than "the business end goes that way"
Crossbows were very easy, but they were still complex to make and bolts more difficult to manufacture.
But they had way more reach than a pointy stick. Worth

>>715361167
They tried that.
Didn't work.
They just made the spear have a lot of mini spears on the end and coated with poison.

>>715360726 (OP)
Both are tools suited for a specific purpose, saying one is better than the other is as retarded as saying a hammer is better than a screwdriver and you're a fucking nigger

>>715360726 (OP)
sorry but I'm a maul man

>>715361454
Swords are just DLC skins for knives, anon.
Nobody who wanted to win wars gave their soldiers swords.
Spears, bows, and crossbows.
Those win wars.
Swords are just little trinkets rich lords gave to their little investment.

>>715361525
really hard to beat the simplicity of it all

>>715360726 (OP)
but polearms ARE the snipers of hand-to-hand combat and everyone hates them because they are so dominant if you don't nerf them into the fucking ground

>>715360726 (OP)
>You're a cancer on the weapon system
swordfags arent the ones going around insisting their weapon is unbeatable.

>>715361115
came here to post this

>>715360726 (OP)
ultimate weapon: swordspear