GolfHole posted:

hmm idk, you'd want to be hit by the curved sword, not the straight sword

the curved sword will be a cleaner cut, less blunt force, and unlikely to pierce and drag organs through one another
a curved sword fees the user's momentum to continue forward through the strike, mitigating inertia (for both attacker and victim). it's for attacking on the go.

the straight sword is for stabbing and/or killing. theres a reason the romans used otherwise-inferior stabby swords -- the people stabbed by them eventually died, almost always. probably slowly.

all things considered you would 100% want to get hit by a scimitar, not skewered on a rapier


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