Talk:Myrtenaster/@comment-96.8.204.173-20150719053619/@comment-147.69.14.40-20150720062926

2nd anon here again.

Mr Noroh it would appear that you have been fed some misinformation about the rapier good sir.

firstly the rapier was designed purely for duelling anyone who used rapiers in actual battle situations would have been laughed at by the veterans for several reasons. The most predominant reason being that they were useless against armour, I acknowledge that you sated that you could find chinks in armour and exploit them but in a battle that secnario just isn't realistic, in every surviving fencing manual the primary tragets in rapier fencing are the sword arm, torso and the head which are also the first parts of your body any sensible soldier would cover with armour. And even in a secenario where every other part of the body was unarmoured you would have a hard time dealing enough damage to these parts of the body to disable your opponent. And while your busy trying to kill the guy in front of you with your rapier the guy next to the person you are fighting has already killed you with a gun, halberd, zweihander or any other weapon designed to take on armoured enemies.

the second reaon rapiers weren't used in battle was that they were flimsy and didn't have a lot of strength behind them, a guard made with a rapier is not as strong as a guard made by a broadsword. Weapons such as pikes, broadswords, zweihanders and halberds would be able to smash through a rapier guard with ease.

Another the rapier wasn't used in battle due to it's length. in a battle you either want a very long weapon like a pike, halberd or zweihander to keep the enemies at bay or a shorter weapon to get up close where the longer weapons can't touch you. The rapier is in a mid section lengthwise it's the longest type of sword so that in a duel you can keep the opponent at distance but it isn't long enough to be used in the same manner as a pike, halberd or zweihander and then it is also too long to be used in up close fights as well.

And finally due to its lack of a good cutting edge any rapier can be grabbed or pushed aside by any man wearing a leather glove with no risk of harming himself thus rendering the rapier user without a defence and just waiting to be killed.