Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-90.71.54.237-20190727122305/@comment-39689697-20190728164416

Minecraftmage113 wrote: "shouldn't these units be a bit more professional"

well... a dagger is not necessarily unprofesional. You could also interpret it as a shortsword, and daggers are decent close-quarters weapons.

anyway, I would agree that higher tier units spawning with daggers could be kind of odd. These units are trained to fight in ranks, and would be equipped as such, daggers don't really fit in that category, swords, pikes, spears, all would. things such as battleaxes and warhammers should also be realistically restricted to more berserker-esque units as they don't make much sense in ranks either. Sorry to be irritating but...

Actually, Battleaxes do make sense to be used by standard Rohirrim Warriors as they are a faction based on the Anglo-saxons, but with horses. Although often wielded by elite Housecarls, axes were nontheless used during Shieldwall formations, which is how most battles were fought. This is exemplified by the Battle of Hastings, when axes within the shield wall were used to easily take down Norman knights.

As for the shortsword interpretation of daggers, this would definitely be proffesional, in fact soldiers fighting in ranks would find a shotsword very useul. The Roman Gladius was a shortsword which Legionaries used when fighting in Testudo. However, I admit that they are better suited to close formations than the messier combat currently used by the mod's units.

All that was simply to justify myself when I say battleaxes, though not warhammers at all, should not be restricted to berserker-esque units for realism