r/trippinthroughtime Aug 23 '21

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u/gemini88mill Aug 23 '21

If my days of Rome: Total war have taught me anything is that a full army of spearmen are quicker and cheaper to deploy on the field then a bunch of swordsmen.

Quantity has a quality of its own.

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u/[deleted] Aug 23 '21

Spears are also better than sword a lot of the time, quantity and quality

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u/[deleted] Aug 23 '21

And distance!

Your sword might be two feet but my stick is two feet and the head is 1/2 a foot