Swords were meme tier and polearms shit all over the pieces of

>>1215580
Your argument is meme tier. All weapons have strengths and weaknesses. Swords were fantastic weapons up until most soldiers started to wear extensive metal armor. If the sword wasn't meant to be a viable weapon we wouldn't have seen it evolve along with the armor into things like the tapered arming sword and the incredibly pointy estoq.

What possessed you to make this thread

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Polearms were replaced by bayonets while swords were still around in the form of sabers.There is also the matter of combat at a closer distance or when there is less room to maneuver, and in those situations the polearm user will typically lose. idk the exact historical contexts in which that happened, but that's how it works.

>>1215614
>le just get past the pointy end of polearm
>the guy will just stand still it's ok
>his friends won't react either

lmao faggot

t. lowly peasant pikeman

>>1215614
>There is also the matter of combat at a closer distance or when there is less room to maneuver
You have maces and knifes for those.

>>1215679
Reminder that Swiss pikemen rekt knights.

>why is a main arm better than a sidearm?

>>1215711
Tell that to samurai.

>>1215635
>be in pike formation
>can't move around much at all
>be fighting other formation that has swords and shields

wew lad

>>1215726
t.meme history

this tarded idea that pikemen were immobile makes no sense considering Swiss were known for agressiveness

>>1215726
what swordsmen fought pikemen?

Is there such thing as a meme-free account of medieval warfare?

>>1215761
It was more about sieges than exciting pitched battles and pitched battles boiled down to infantry poking each other with pointy sticks because rarely anyone wanted to pull off heroic Aragorn shit.

>>1215755
Zweihander-wielding kinds.

>>1216046
And what zweihander has to do with sword and shields formations which apparently fought pikemen?