I’m good with edged weapons, good with fighting, and am good with sticks, but I have never been able to get a feel for the spears in post 27.
I have played with them a number of times and I just cannot connect with them as an exceptional weapon, of course they are still a great spear and dangerous weapon, better than nothing, and so on, but they are sure not what I like.
I have a very old steel handled carpenters hatchet. It has a wide, very sharp, yet thin blade. I have held it and thought to myself that it would be a wicked weapon.
In “All Quiet On The Western Front”, the author mentions that the German soldiers after much hand to hand combat, preferred their sharpened spades to the bayonet. I have also read that the Russian special forces also prefer the sharpened spade.