Knife
The Knife is a Miscellaneous melee weapon. It is not used by any unit and is found only in the Unit Creator.
Characteristics
The Knife is very deadly and can cut through units like butter. This unrealistically lethal weapon can inflict incredible amount of damage quick and ceaselessly with its very short cooldown between attacks.
One setback of the knife is its length, shortening its attack range immensely. Units using the weapon will cut it downward at their opponents, followed by slices and stabs. Grazes from the knife will not injure anyone though; a full on hit from the blade is required to cause damage.
History
In early periods in the West, no special kind of knife was used at the table. Men and often women of most classes carried a knife around with them for a great variety of tasks, from pruning trees to personal protection or eating at the table, and sometimes carried them in a cadena. It was only in the 17th century that hosts among the elite began to lay out cutlery at the table again, although at an Italian banquet in 1536 for Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, it is recorded that each guest was provided with knife, spoon and fork, evidently a rarity.
The distinguishing feature of a table knife is a blunt or rounded end. The origin of this, and thus of the table knife itself, is attributed by tradition to Cardinal Richelieu around 1637, reputedly to cure dinner guests of the habit of picking their teeth with their knife-points.
Later, in 1669, King Louis XIV of France banned pointed table knives, insisting on blunt tips, hoping to reduce violence.
In any table setting, the blade will typically be the piece to bear the maker's stamp on the knife. The English city of Sheffield is noted for its manufacture of the cutlery, and many knives bear the city's name along with the maker's.
In the past the blades were typically of carbon steel, with handles of bone, wood or ivory, but many modern examples are now made from a single piece of stainless steel for both handle and blade.
A special type of a table knife is a knife with a "Buckels"-blade. It is also called the "Old-German-table-knife". These blades are usually very thin ground and additionally made of carbon steel. As a result these blades are extremely sharp and it is not necessary to use an additional knife with a serrated edge to cut through certain foods
Trivia
- When equipped on the right hand, units will wield the Knife outside their hand.
- The Anglo-Saxon and Germanic version of this was called the seax, often over a foot long.
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