Does an untrained combatant with a spear beat one with a sword?
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Me and the boys are debating this and it's getting heated. If we ever run trials on this, say with foam weapons, this markets resolves to the win rate of spears.

Twitter poll that prompted the discussion:

https://twitter.com/primalpoly/status/1755383109162242485

Here's some disinformation on the subject for your perusal: https://youtu.be/afqhBODc_8U?si=bNea_JeeBDcNN0n3

No shields.

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Untrained is one thing, in the weapons themselves, but are they also clueless about fighting, aggression, movement, if they're agile aggressive creative the sword would do better, if not the spear?

How are you going to resolve the market? Are you and the boys going to duel and film it?

@ProjectVictory I will be trying my best to make the trials happen. If recorded the footage will not be released publicly. But don't worry, you can trust the procedure to be fair, the process will be extremely adversarial.

@MichaelWheatley Will the spear be substantially longer than the sword, and will a nick on the shin by either weapon count as a point?

@Panfilo definitely longer. Rules not created yet, but I will be lobbying hard for nicks not to count.

This seems like a p artificial test.

@NoaNabeshima definitely.

Let me know if you can think of a better way to decide this so I can send the results to Team Spear.

is the swordsman also untrained?

@WieDan yeah, exactly