Sharp blades are also useless against armour.
Swords were used to batter opponents into submission, until they were too weak to fight, then they were either run through or hacked until they died from a loss of blood.
And my mom told me that Dungeons and Dragons was an unproductive hobby. :)
In a similar vein, I note "that Rock and Roll Crap" my grandmother always bitched about has held its value a whole lot longer than the "forties music" she thought of so highly!
Sharp blades are also useless against armour.
Swords were used to batter opponents into submission, until they were too weak to fight, then they were either run through or hacked until they died from a loss of blood.
I’ve read elsewhere that the War-Hammer and the Mace were the preferred tools of knights vs. knights. Also on the Connections videos Burke shows that the preferred place to strike a man in battle was in the lesser armored legs. That was confirmed by examination of several burial mounds in France and England.