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  • Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    3 months ago

    A truly determined (re: suicidal) person can also just impale themselves further on your spear to disarm you. Can’t do that against a halberd.

    Shield walls help with this problem as well though, so spears are still really versatile.

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      3 months ago

      A truly determined (re: suicidal) person can also just impale themselves further on your spear to disarm you.

      The boar technique

      • Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        3 months ago

        Exactly what I was thinking about (read a post about that the other day on how boars are so batshit crazy they’ll impale themselves further just to try to gore you)