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Weapons 101; Thursday, Third Period [06/18].
And it was time again for another exciting edition of Playing With Weapons in a Fake Medieval Forest, with tables full of this week's weapons and practice dummies off to the side just waiting to be thoroughly abused by them, which they certainly would be today, for today, they were talkinga bout maces!
"Maces!" Amaya announced happily once it seemed everyone was ready to go, brandishing one happily, and then pounding the head of it (it wasn't a particularly spiky one) into her hand. "Our introduction into blunt, or bludgeoning weapons! You can't go wrong with a mace. I'm going to be honest, all of that fancy work you can manage to get out with a sword or some other weapon might look nice, and there's a lot to be said about a battle won through bloodshed, but you can't get more efficient than just conking someone upside the skull with a nice hunk of beautifully formed metal on a stick.
"Which is, basically, what a mace is. A mace consists of a strong, heavy, wooden or metal shaft, often reinforced with metal if wood, featuring a head made of stone, bone, copper, bronze, iron, or steel. It's essentially a beefed up version of a club, back when people were discovering how to use metal in all sorts of tools and weapons and they considered putting some on top of a club and realized, yes, this, this will do much more damage, let's stick with this! Now those early maces weren't very effecient because the heads on them were contantly busting and breaking from the impact, but, over the years, as metalworking and blacksmithing developed, they were able to reinforce the heads to become stronger and take better blows, as well as leading to interesting designs, a variety of which you'll see here."
She gestured to the wonderful array of different shapes and designs on the rack behind her.
"Maces really became popular with the development of chain and platemail that was developed as a defence against blade weapons," she continued, "so the use of a blunt weapon like a mace or a cudgel came in handy to better penetrate or crush said armor. And if you enemy doesn't have armor, well, all the better to crush bodies and bones."
"Now," she said, "I'm sure there are some really technical forms and techniques one can use when actually using a mace, and if anyone has some experience they'd like to share with the class, please do, but I think, for the most part, you can't really go wrong with a good old swing-and-a-hit. So if there are any questions, we'll go over those, and, if not, I'll let you guys pick out a few maces and give them a go.
"Maces!" Amaya announced happily once it seemed everyone was ready to go, brandishing one happily, and then pounding the head of it (it wasn't a particularly spiky one) into her hand. "Our introduction into blunt, or bludgeoning weapons! You can't go wrong with a mace. I'm going to be honest, all of that fancy work you can manage to get out with a sword or some other weapon might look nice, and there's a lot to be said about a battle won through bloodshed, but you can't get more efficient than just conking someone upside the skull with a nice hunk of beautifully formed metal on a stick.
"Which is, basically, what a mace is. A mace consists of a strong, heavy, wooden or metal shaft, often reinforced with metal if wood, featuring a head made of stone, bone, copper, bronze, iron, or steel. It's essentially a beefed up version of a club, back when people were discovering how to use metal in all sorts of tools and weapons and they considered putting some on top of a club and realized, yes, this, this will do much more damage, let's stick with this! Now those early maces weren't very effecient because the heads on them were contantly busting and breaking from the impact, but, over the years, as metalworking and blacksmithing developed, they were able to reinforce the heads to become stronger and take better blows, as well as leading to interesting designs, a variety of which you'll see here."
She gestured to the wonderful array of different shapes and designs on the rack behind her.
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"Maces really became popular with the development of chain and platemail that was developed as a defence against blade weapons," she continued, "so the use of a blunt weapon like a mace or a cudgel came in handy to better penetrate or crush said armor. And if you enemy doesn't have armor, well, all the better to crush bodies and bones."
"Now," she said, "I'm sure there are some really technical forms and techniques one can use when actually using a mace, and if anyone has some experience they'd like to share with the class, please do, but I think, for the most part, you can't really go wrong with a good old swing-and-a-hit. So if there are any questions, we'll go over those, and, if not, I'll let you guys pick out a few maces and give them a go.
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