The zweihander was used as early as the 14th century. The famous German mercs were merely most famous users of the big bad body-cleaver.
Nope, I was thinking of the Falchion.
Re: Medaeval War Tactics
The zweihander was used as early as the 14th century. The famous German mercs were merely most famous users of the big bad body-cleaver.
Nope, I was thinking of the Falchion.
'Only the Dead Have Seen the End of War' Plato
'Ar nDuctas' O'Dougherty clan motto
'In Peace, sons bury thier fathers; In War, fathers bury thier sons' Thucydides
'Forth Eorlingas!' motto of the Riders of Rohan
'dammit, In for a Penny, In for a Pound!' the Duke of Wellington
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