User blog comment:YoungSamurai18/We Duel In the Shadows! Araluen Ranger Corps vs Dark Brotherhood/@comment-379205-20180510035926

119's "Violence in Silence" Edges


 * Close Range: The Saxe has twice the length of the dagger, has a heavier blade (assuming it's based on the historical saex), and is balanced for throwing, even if that doesn't seem too likely if they would given they have dedicated throwing knives, and throwing your primary weapons is a dangerous gamble that disarms you if you miss. Edge: Araluen Rangers


 * Mid-Range: Contrary to what video games and movie suggest, throwing knives are not the most deadly of weapons. Sure they can kill with a lucky throw to the throat, but a hit to the chest is unlikely to do fatal damage unless the knife has considerable weight (admittedly these ones do) AND a luck throw goes between the ribs. Likewise, strikes to the head are likely to bounce off the skull. Add to that the fact that, it is quite possible that, depending on the distance and speed of rotation of the knife, that it might not hit blade-first, instead impacting with the handle, which might serve as a painful distraction at best, but at worst, it may simply be a relatively minor nuisance, especially if it hits armor, which would likely stop a thrown knife. The sword has a shorter range, but it is much more likely to kill the target with a well-placed thrust. Edge: Dark Brotherhood


 * Long Range: The longbow is larger, and thus has more power behind it, while the recurve hunting bow is smaller, but easier to maneuver in close quarters. For this reason, I call this match Even


 * Special: The poison will make strikes with the Brotherhood's weapons more lethal, however, the Striker is a heavy blunt weapon that can be thrown a surprisingly long distance for its weight (10 pounds seems a bit heavy for a real-world melee weapon, let alone a throwing one- those Rangers must be really strong) that can (presumably) also be used as a mace-like melee weapon. Edge: Araluen Rangers


 * Armor: The protection added by putting metal studs in armor are minimal at best- at most, they might make it more difficult to slash through if the strike fall on a significant number of the studs. Thus metal studs were not normally placed on leather armor in real life unless they were rivets holding plates of metal sandwiched between layers of leather (brigandine armor). Still, it is still marginally better than leather alone (at least in theory), and the real advantage is given with the Ranger's cloak, which will allow them to blend into the shadows better.

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