Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-24772070-20161204040824/@comment-25936766-20170131221641

And crush more easily. Since everyone was using quite the heavy armor, it's not like they were very good at avoiding being hit by those "slow and heavy" weapons.

Meanwhile, a single swing of those would leave you almost useless if not downright dead. And the speed-for-swing issue can be alliviated a bit with half-swording.