Timeline for Are "Midas" swords useless for warfare?
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| Aug 2, 2018 at 0:08 | comment | added | Mr.J | I assumed that gold is quite stronger than steel, turns out its the other way around as I have read with so many articles? | |
| Aug 1, 2018 at 14:40 | comment | added | ShadowRanger | @Mr.J: Gold doesn't corrode, and it doesn't break, but pure gold is quite soft. The old canard about biting a coin to check if it's real gold is probably false, but only because gold coins were almost always stronger alloys of gold; if they were pure gold, they'd be soft enough that you could dent them with your teeth. So sure, if your steel armor is turned to gold, it won't crack under extreme stress (the kind you'd almost never encounter in a medieval period), it'll just get cut and bent under moderate stress (say, getting hit by a sword). | |
| Jul 31, 2018 at 4:13 | comment | added | Mr.J | I actually thought Gold is more durable than Steel... not? | |
| Jul 30, 2018 at 14:31 | comment | added | Aethenosity | @Madlozoz why ask me that? That's a question for OP. I would think that would not count, but again, this wasn't my question. | |
| Jul 30, 2018 at 12:40 | comment | added | Madlozoz | @Aethenosity but what if the wound fester? | |
| Jul 30, 2018 at 4:17 | comment | added | pojo-guy | It's magic, so OP's rules | |
| Jul 29, 2018 at 22:20 | comment | added | WGroleau | Don't ask me, ask the OP who explicitly stated only dead bodies. | |
| Jul 29, 2018 at 17:22 | comment | added | Peter Cordes | @WGroleau: how does the weapon "know" the difference between stabbing a piece of leather (dead cow) when it's being worn or sitting on the ground? Upvoted for pointing out this potential corner case that the question didn't address. But the question did specify living things or corpses, so I don't think metal objects like links in a chainmail shirt would convert. | |
| Jul 29, 2018 at 16:53 | comment | added | Aethenosity | OP said it had to be a deathblow, so stepping on arrows would do nothing but hurt. | |
| Jul 29, 2018 at 15:01 | comment | added | WGroleau | OP said that the effect was on dead bodies, not on clothing of live ones. | |
| Jul 29, 2018 at 10:59 | history | answered | Anketam | CC BY-SA 4.0 |