Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-26863727-20151116054444/@comment-26863727-20151123231921

Sethlibra wrote: Narvin wrote: One thing I would love to see would be a rapier. I would love to see that as well. A sword with a high speed, but maybe (just slightly) shorter range, and maybe less durability. Not sure what faction would get them. Elven swords should be fast like rapiers, but they weren't rapiers, and Gondor doesn't seem to fit it either. Maybe Dol Amroth, or another province of Gondor? Rapiers are longer than normal swords, but they don't fit in Middle-Earth anyway due to weapons being heavily influenced by the Dark Ages and Medieval Times, and the rapier originates in the mid to late Renaissance. Later they were superceded the shorter smallsword and saber. Furthermore, rapiers are damn near useless for cutting, and in a world where almost every armed force has big-ish shields, plate armor, or even both, a sword that specialized is a horrible idea!