Board Thread:Lore/@comment-25954624-20150404151445/@comment-27723099-20150505225707

Samoja1 wrote: Thorin Stonehelm wrote: I am saying if two people are fighting and one is using a hammer, if the person with the hammer aims at the other's head that person will block with their shield and be blind allowing the person with the hammer an opening to hit his opponent anywhere on the body without interference.

Also in a sword vs hammer fight the person with the hammer can use the hammer to knock the sword out of their opponent's hand Both true, it depends on the skill of the user generally, if the person A(the one with a sword) tries to parry the warhammer with his sword, well most likely he will lose it, but swords are much more wieldy then warhammers, and the person B(the one with a hammer)still needs to protect himself from the opponent, heater shield is small for example and does not obstruct view very much, and it does no good to bash away and at the same time being hit by your opponent, best case scenario you kill him and he maims(or kills you), worst case, he deflects your blow and kills you. I am not saying shields were not shatterd but i don't think that was your goal, you wanted to land a blow where it hurts, to kill or disable your opponent as quickly as possible, and that is a head or shoulder. Remember there are not only the two of you there, warhammers were generally a battlefield weapon so you have two armies facing each other, you want to kill the opponent you are fighting as quickly as you can because there are 50 more of those b******s on the other side and you really don't want to have to fight 2 or more at the same time.

In a duel, if you block a hammer with your shield above the head, the enemy will be very open and unable to move the hammer down again fast enough, so you can easily attack him with your sword. You don't have to see the enemy all the time to know what to do.

In mass fights it's not important to kill as many enemies as possible as fast as possible, but to hold ground and just keep fighting longer than the enemy. I think most of the losses in battles occur after one side gave up.