Dan Howard wrote: |
You can't cut through mail with a sword. You can't cut through plate with a sword. |
Yes Dan, I know. ;-) To my knowledge, the only time when people have been wounded with cutting swords when wearing mail was because there was because the mail splits or otherwise fails- not from being “cut through”-but because of breaking or some similar form of failure. Likewise, I’ve never said anything about cutting plate with a sword. I know it doesn’t work. I’ve explained to many other people, repeatedly, that it doesn’t work.
I have also never said that a sword can “punch through” plate. That would mean that you could take a sword, aim it at a breastplate say, and drive it forward with enough force to go through and kill a person. I already know this doesn’t work. The only thing I have said regarding swords piercing plate was that some swords have “points acute enough to pierce the articulations of full plate”. The key word is “articulations”, which as you know are not completely invulnerable to a sword point, albeit being very difficult targets to effectively exploit.
I would appreciate if you were careful to avoid straw man arguments about my positions.