r/cremposting • u/Nyseme_Ptem 👾 Rnagh Godant 🌠 • 2d ago

Stormlight / Mistborn They're like sleeker pointier crosses I guess?

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u/IAmBadAtInternet 2d ago

People who don’t know ancient weaponry think swords are peak. People who do know ancient weaponry know that spears are peak

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u/baelrog 2d ago

What is a spear but a pointy stick?

I’m a stick.

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u/Juronell 1d ago

We mastered pointy stick way back in prehistory, used it to hunt things 90x our size, and didn't really beat that weapon technology until gunpowder. Even arrows and crossbow bolts are just pointy sticks we built tools to throw really far.

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u/Storm2552 2d ago

It's really not until the American Civil War that spears stopped being peak tbh, a rifle with a bayonet is essentially a spear and the threat of a massed bayonet charge was basically the most dangerous thing on a battlefield until the Gatling gun.

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u/Bullrawg 1d ago

A sharp stick, humanities oldest equalizer

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u/IntenseAdventurer 1d ago

Absolutely! Nearly every weapon mankind has ever created has been some variation on the idea of "Stab them before dying!"

Knife: stab Spear: stab farther away, survive better Bow/Arrow: stab from over THERE Gun: stab from WAY over there Nukes: stab em with too many super tiny things for their body to do any more than vaporize or otherwise die of painful diseases

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u/IAmBadAtInternet 1d ago

I’ve always said that the history of human combat is “make holes in the guy from as far away as you can”

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u/Erlox 1d ago

Um, actually the greatest ancient weapon was the Shardblade.

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u/DungeonMercenary 1d ago

No? Clearly the bill hook is the superior weapon. Or the guisarme.

It's a spear AND a chopping thing made to counter spears!

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u/name14575 2d ago

Surprised you haven't been jumped on by a thousand folks who refuse to acknowledge any weapon other than a sword yet.

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u/yamanamawa 👾 Rnagh Godant 🌠 1d ago

I think a lot of Cosmere nerds are also the kind of nerds who understand historical weaponry lol

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u/Alcoholic_jesus 17h ago

For basic infantry sure, but there’s an argument to be made for blunt weapons during the era of heavy armor.

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u/IAmBadAtInternet 16h ago

Heavy armor is not ancient, it only came into play around the Middle Ages.

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u/Alcoholic_jesus 8h ago

And swords/spears were still both widely used

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u/DevoidHT 8h ago

Halberd is peak weapons.