>>3959507In armoured fighting, slashes are useless because both you and your enemy are armoured. If one carry sword instead of pollaxes, pickaxes, warhammers, or maces; there are several techniques one can use, such as halfswording for finding gaps to stab through, and mordstreich/mordhau to basically turn your sword into two-handed mace
She's fine, she's wearing gauntlets, and one can hold a sword quite fine as long one does not let the sword slip through the fingers.
