User blog comment:MilenHD/Season 3 Opener: Norman vs Highlander/@comment-17814994-20161105165023

Elgb's "Totally Medieval" EDGES!!!

Short: This is a tough one. Normally a Norman broadsword deals way more massive damage than the thinner Scottish broadsword when it hits flesh. But the Scottish sword's thinner blade can probably thrust more efficiently against chainmail armor. I'm no blademaster, but I think that the Scot's more pointy tip is the better sword when you're up against armored opponents. EDGE: Scots

Mid: Although the claymore's designed is good against polearms, I still think that the spear's three feet advantage is just too much. It offers way more range and can keep your opponent at a distance better. EDGE: Norman

Long: I have to give this one to the crossbow. When you're up against someone wearing armor, you're gonna be needing a missile weapon that's pwoerful enough to penetrate it. A crossbow, with it's more powerful bolts, it more effienct in taking out someone wearing armor. Longbows on the other hand, aren't really reliable in armor penetration. Normal arrows can't do squat against riveted chanimail, and while needle bodkins can penetrate the rings, there's stilla huge chance that padding beneath can stop it. Even if the longbow has the range adavntage it won't guarantee that it'll penetrate chainmail, but the crossbow on the other hand ahs that better penetrative power. EDGE: Norman

Special: Both weapons are very effective against chainmail armor. However, the Dane axe is just a normal axe while the lochabar axe doubles as an axe and hook. That hook will be devastating when used to to pull down chainmail rings; bringing down a person to the ground for a coup de grace. Worse, is that it's a polearm with a 2-feet long advantage. EDGE: Scots

Deadliest Warrior?

While the Highlanders are definately more iconic,and is the warrior culture that survived till the present times, the  Normans just beat them in both weapons and x-factors here. Whilethe Scots are devastating at short range and mid range, the Normans jsut beat them in short range and long range. They also have the armor and shield that cover a larger portion of the body than the Highlanders. Add also to the fact that the Normans were more successful in their military conquest (which also resuted in them conquering England, the same guys that the Highlanders couldn't beat) than the Highanders and their uprising.