>>61560954Sure you could 'hold' it, but the Surface-Area/Force ratio works against you in that situation. It is literally impossible to built up enough force to inflict meaningful damage, especially against someone wearing a helmet.
That illustration isn't intended to be a 1:1 reality mapping. Basically none of them were. And the handful which were were usually drawn by monks and poets who had literally no idea how to fight in reality. Remember that (no matter what Shadiversity tells you when he isn't shilling his god-awful pulp books) for most of human history, most soldiers were illiterate.
