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The amount of parrying ability you have with a round pole that has a bulky object at the end preventing incoming weapons from sliding off is non existent, plus you have no hand protection in the situation of a mace meaning its not an option to slide a weapon downwards. The solution was to just.bend them back, like they did.įirst of all swords are used for parrying, you smack the incoming weapon to the side with the side of the blade and generally the sword can come off completely unharmed. Plus I'd like to point out that back in the day when maces actually were used and received battle damage, it was usually in the form of bending, not experiencing a catastrophic failure (which swords are far more prone to) much less "crumpling". I'm really confused about your argument, you say that the handle could get hit by a heavy weapon, but that's quite unlikely, meanwhile the distal taper on a sword is ok because it's a cutting weapon.yet it wouldn't get hit by heavy weapons even though it's far more likely to get used in a defensive manner? And we're also just ignoring that murder strokes are a thing too I suppose, as if the blades weren't even thinner and lighter in the era where swords were being used that way. You'd make it with a steel cable and a metal handle, at that point the room you need inside is negligible at best, and the handle still isn't absorbing the shock of the mace because you're probably going to want to use it in it's extended mode, where you're not getting much shock back to the handle. The design pictured isn't how you'd make this weapon.