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RetuenOfDevsman posted...

Really? I usually see them associated with infantry.

Well, in any case, I hate how they're usually underpowered anyway.

It's partially a case of trying to balance out weapons in games that give you options, and the sword just... looking cooler and getting all the glory in mythos. Swords originated from knives just getting longer and longer, and, being almost entirely one vast blade, were also very expensive. Swords have practicality to them, sure, but being a long, expensive version of a common thing, they were almost certainly as much of a status flex as they were born of utility.