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fandomhigh2023-11-10 06:19 am
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Basic Weaponry; Friday, Third Period [11/10].
"Good morning, everyone!" Amaya greeted the class with her usual cheery excitement for getting to talk a bunch of ears off about weaponry. "Last week, we did a little bit of shooting, and now we're going to get back to smashing in some of the best ways possible. That's right! Today, we're talking about maces!"
"A favorite," here she hit the class with a particularly big grin, "amongst bludgeoning weapons! You really can't go wrong with a mace. If I'm completely honest, all of that fancy work you can manage to get out with a sword or some other weapon might look nice, 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. Often with spikes!"
What more was there to love, really?
"Generally speaking," Amaya continued, "a mace consists of a strong, heavy, wooden or metal shaft, often reinforced with metal, 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 efficient because the heads on them were constantly 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.
"Now one thing to remember about the mace is that it really came into popular coinciding with the development of more effective chain and plate armor." Was there a particular shine in Amaya's eyes a her lecture brought her around into the literal colliding of two of her favorite topics? Indeed, it was! "After all, those kinds of armors turned out to be an excellent defense again bladed weapons, so the use of blunt weapons such as a cudgel or a bludgeon like a mace worked pretty well to better penetrate or crush such armor! Technological advances in weapon design in direct response to the improvements made in armor! You love to see it!
"And you know what else we love to see? Maces in action! So with that, I'll open it up to any questions you might have before handing you over to Detective Diaz to show you how it's done."
"A favorite," here she hit the class with a particularly big grin, "amongst bludgeoning weapons! You really can't go wrong with a mace. If I'm completely honest, all of that fancy work you can manage to get out with a sword or some other weapon might look nice, 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. Often with spikes!"
What more was there to love, really?
"Generally speaking," Amaya continued, "a mace consists of a strong, heavy, wooden or metal shaft, often reinforced with metal, 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 efficient because the heads on them were constantly 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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"Now one thing to remember about the mace is that it really came into popular coinciding with the development of more effective chain and plate armor." Was there a particular shine in Amaya's eyes a her lecture brought her around into the literal colliding of two of her favorite topics? Indeed, it was! "After all, those kinds of armors turned out to be an excellent defense again bladed weapons, so the use of blunt weapons such as a cudgel or a bludgeon like a mace worked pretty well to better penetrate or crush such armor! Technological advances in weapon design in direct response to the improvements made in armor! You love to see it!
"And you know what else we love to see? Maces in action! So with that, I'll open it up to any questions you might have before handing you over to Detective Diaz to show you how it's done."