Talk:Myrtenaster/@comment-6582316-20150721050852/@comment-6582316-20150722005636

Perhaps, I would say that what is a sword is not about blade concept though, as scimitars, katanas, rapiers, and longswords are all swords (and actually all weigh about the same more or less) so what makes a rapier different from an arming sword is not that a rapier is not a sword and an arming sword is but that a rapier is a different conception of what a sword needs to be able to do. By the way katanas rely heavily on their weight and are no faster than any other sword, same with rapiers to some degree as the idea with a rapier is to put the weight of a longsword behind the tip of a dagger at long range. Greatswords are mostly about dealing with polearms, once they get into range they grip just below the second set of quillons and use the sword like a short spear. The scimitar is really the opposite of the rapier, curved so that when it sliced only a small part of the blade touched at a given time letting the sword impart more force to that area without diffusing it across the body.

When you say sword do you mean this?

This is similar to an early medieval arming sword and was desinged to be able to stab through chainmail and cut through bone, but it is by no means a typical sword, it had its heyday, it evolved into a sword better suited for the needs of the renessance battlefield, the rapier.