Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-17114085-20180414200018/@comment-24510587-20180430000106

(...What? No. Cutlasses have blades of like 70 cm on average, however most regularly used blades, especially contemporary ones such as sabres and backswords, approach the 90 cm mark.

You're trying to argue against history here. Axes, maces, and regular swords were not used by the time of the Age of Sail because they were not practical. This is a fact. They are bulky and unwieldy, and especially maces and axes require a lot of swinging room to be effective, room one simply does not have on a ship.)