User blog comment:Gabool the Wild/The Idoicy of the Boxing Hare/@comment-2084900-20100617000809

Stiffener Medick. If I lived in the Redwall universe, I would not carry, as you put it, a blundering heavy old piece of metal, even though I said I would possibly carry a battleaxe in the blog post. In Redwall, I would carry a dagger and a bow and fight like squirrels. Listen, I am not talking to you as stiffener medick right now, I am talking to whoever you are in the real world. Would you really go into combat in, say, Vietnam, armed with a sabre? No you would have an M16. It is the same as going to a fight in the Redwall universe armed with your bare five knuckles while everyone else has an axe or sword or, even worse bows and spears. Peony Laminar I see your point about the Iliad, but I think that the weapons and fighting styles are much more medieval.