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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

The boar technique

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month 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)