Great Sword of Grimling Slaying  

 

Just a question: according to screenshot, isn't this a 2hs or am I blind?

How many of you have ever used an axe or spliting maul to cut your firewood into the correct sizes? The splitting maul is more or less a hammer with a wedge shape on one side. at the point of the wedge the "blade" area is probably 3/16ths wide. it is beveled to a an edge, an edge that in no way would you call it sharp. but it cuts into the firewood. It cuts into it and because of the wedge design it spreads the wood apart and, with a good blow, breaks it off . it is a slashing weopon. it cuts even though it is as dull as a lamp post. The Axe works the same way. Yes you want to sharpen that axe befor you start spliting your firewood. Once it starts cutting into firewood it begins to dull. many types of wood will have stuff in the bark, small pebbles and sand usualy and on occasion you will run into a nail. the edge can actualy be very very dull with chips out of it and when you hit something with it it cuts not bashes. I am not an expert on midevil fighting. but i do know a few things. One: sharpening a weopon, wether it is a great sword or a dagger isnt that hard to do with the right equipment such as the grinding wheel we have all seen in the movies. I have seen versions of that wheel on several ranches when i was younger. they work rather nicely.

two: I would want my sword as sharp as i could get it. Why? Becuase I am not worried about a few nicks if we happen to clash sword together i want my blade to cut into his armor, not bend it, though this does do some damage, but to cut into it. If all i want to do is to club them to death or beat them silly there is a much more economical weopon you can use. a mace or a staff. or a straight rod of steel. Make no mistake they made those swords to cut not bash. a sword is just flat to expensive to make to use it as a mace.

three: to cut the heads off of pikes and such you need a deged weopn. go get someone to hold a long broom stick out like a pike, not take a club and try to break the end off. a blunt weopon will just push that out of the way. But an edged weopon, wether dull or sharpened, will have a better chance to cut it off, even though it might take a few blows. Lastly what do you think caused limbs and heads to be cut off. darn hard to cut a arm or leg off with a club. And yes i know therer are could be so severly crushed that it had to be amputated. Anyway that is how i see it.

Good post. Not all swords slash, a 'DUH' statement, but it needs to be said here. (Think of fencers.) In real life, as said above, no 2HS is sharp as a 'razor'.

Common sense, a perfectly sharp sword hits steel and what happens to the edge after the first hit? Duh. Now the 2HS is functioning as a 2HB. So why waste time with a sharpening stone when after the first hit all your work goes down the drain?

I don't think it is a typo on VI's part, and it makes sense to me.