Comment on In a thousand years teachers will have a hard time explaining the origins of one of the most dangerous and ill-conceived weapons ever invented: the lightsaber

• Boozilla@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I don’t know much about weapons, but to me, the bat’leth always looked like it was intentionally designed to harm the person wielding it. Like they put it on the wall as a booby trap.

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  • Blaster_M@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Well, about that, it turns out the Bat’leth may actually be a half-decent heavy weapon with lots of counterattack options…

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    • rtxn@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s the “Cow Tools” of melee weapons. It might work to an extent, but we’ve had millenia to perfect bladed and spiked weapons, and somehow never arrived at anything close to the bat’leth.

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      • Blaster_M@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        True, weapons designed for reach. Bat’leth is much better as a CQ weapon when tight spaces are a problem for long weapons. Of course, knives…

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  • Damage@feddit.it ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    In fact, Word doesn’t use it

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