Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-24479348-20131203044432/@comment-202.156.138.24-20140504135538

92.18.162.60 wrote: Don't go through armour? Spears are a penetrating weapon that focus all of their force on a small point of impact, they have excellent penetrating power. And as for breaking? How weak do you think the wooden handles were. I can understand the tight caves and length issue to some extent, but 9/10 caves in skyrim are easily large enough to wield a spear. There is no good reason to not include spears- while they aren't absolutely needed, I think they would be a nice addition. And finally, I am seeing a lot of arguments about it being unrealistic. Skyrim features magic, elves, firebreathing dragons, demons, and the undead. I don't think realism is it's primary selling point... Spear as a penetrating weapon...

You gotta be kidding me on that one. Wood is not as strong as you think, especially against MAGICAL armor forged from unholy magic with a demon heart involved (Unless you tell me you used in game eldergleam wood to make a daedric spear, forget strong wood). Focusing all the force onto one point of impact is only useful if the force is kept straight and perpendicular to the armor (if its not perpendicular you get deflection and worse torsion on the wood) and the bits behind don't bend and break (which is again why I said THICK, HEAVY HANDLE was viable, look at a roman pilum and you can see the width of the handle, its not thin, it was made to go through shields), which you can also do with a sword (which has a sharp tip for god's sake, and is made entirely of indistructible MAGIC impregnated metal) or spiked mace (beastly choice against armor), by the way. Also, I doubt the caves are 2 meters across and against the animals and most of the (clothed) enemies, wouldn't a cutting weapon be better? Against the armored ones wouldn't you go for a mace?

You got it right where they are not needed. Spears are for phalanx defense, charging, throwing or horseback, something you don't do like 90% of the time in TES. While they will be cool, I'll throw out the stark fact: Yes, spears are cool and the ultimate manly man's symbol of manly manliness, but put it in a game, it means MORE CODE and this means MORE BUGS which leads to MORE WORK FOR LAZY BETH. Did you read the last point? it was the most important one actually. Just because you, I (yes, I wanted to make an RP character who used a spear and a sword sidearm in the lines of a roman legionnaire)  and a couple of other guys want spears doesn't mean Beth will not be lazy and make them.