GURPS Combat Choices: Thrust or Swing?

When a GURPS combatant is deciding what to do in an attack, one of the most basic decisions is whether to Thrust or Swing. In some cases, this is a straightforward decision, either because the weapon's listing doesn't give you any options (brass knuckles, for instance), or because Thrust and Swing attacks do the same kind of damage, but Swings do more (a club, for instance).

But for many weapons, you face a choice between a Thrust for Impaling damage and a Swing for Cutting damage. The Thrust does less damage, but Impaling gets a x2 wounding modifier, versus a x1.5 modifier for Cutting. When does the greater damage for a Swing outweigh the smaller wounding modifier?

A few days ago, I posted a table showing the thrust and swing damage from all weapons with swing-cutting damage and thrust-impaling damage. Grouped according to their damage characteristics, these weapons fall into 23 classes (which number I attribute the the Illuminati at work). In the table below, I've listed each weapon class, with entries for each level of Strength from 5 to 20. The entries show the expected benefit in injury from making a thrusting attack versus a swinging attack. Negative numbers, with a blue background, mean that you are better off thrusting than swinging. Positive numbers, with a yellow background, mean that it's a better bet to swing. Remember, this is injury, not damage. The numbers in the chart reflect what you get after applying the wounding modifier.

	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20
Katar	-2	-2	-3	-3	-4.01	-3.51	-4.33	-3.33	-4.39	-3.11	-3.72	-2.25	-3.47	-2	-2	-2
Pata	-3.51	-3.51	-4.33	-4.33	-5.33	-4	-4.5	-3	-4.25	-2.75	-3.25	-1.75	-3	-1.5	-1	0.5
Large Katar-LT	-2.67	-2.67	-3.51	-3.51	-4.33	-3.33	-4	-2.5	-3.72	-2.25	-2.75	-1.25	-2.5	-1	-0.5	1
Main Gauche	-1.34	-1.34	-2	-2	-2.67	-2.17	-2.67	-1.67	-2.39	-1.11	-1.72	-0.25	-1.47	0	0	0
Longsword 2	-2.67	-2.67	-3.33	-3.33	-4	-2.5	-3	-1.5	-2.75	-1.25	-1.75	-0.25	-1.5	0	0.5	2
Saber	-1.67	-1.67	-2.17	-2.17	-2.67	-1.67	-2	-0.5	-1.72	-0.25	-0.75	0.75	-0.5	1	1.5	3
Large Knife	-1.34	-1.34	-1.67	-1.67	-2.17	-1.33	-1.67	-0.34	-1.11	0.28	-0.25	1.25	0	1.5	1.5	1.5
Bastard 2	-1.67	-1.67	-2	-2	-2.5	-1	-1.5	0	-1.25	0.25	-0.25	1.25	0	1.5	2	3.5
Small Knife	-1	-1	-1.34	-1.34	-1.67	-1.17	-1.33	-0.33	-0.73	0.55	0.28	0.28	0.28	0.28	0.28	0.28
Broadsword	-1.33	-1.33	-1.67	-1.67	-2	-0.5	-1	0.5	-0.75	0.75	0.25	1.75	0.5	2	2.5	4
Jian	-1.17	-1.17	-1.33	-1.33	-1.67	-0.34	-0.5	1	-0.25	1.25	0.75	2.25	1	2.5	3	4.5
Long Knife	-1.01	-1.01	-1.17	-1.17	-1.33	-0.33	-0.34	1.16	0.28	1.75	1.25	2.75	1.5	3	3.5	5
Glaive	-0.34	-0.34	-0.5	-0.5	-1	0.5	0	1.5	0.25	1.75	1.25	2.75	1.5	3	3.5	5
Katana 1	-0.33	-0.33	-0.33	-0.33	-0.34	1.16	1	2.5	1.25	2.75	2.25	3.75	2.5	4	4.5	6
Kukri	-0.67	-0.67	-0.51	-0.51	-0.33	0.67	1	2.5	1.94	3.41	3.25	4.75	3.5	5	5.44	6.94
Shortsword	-0.51	-0.51	-0.33	-0.33	-0.33	1	1.16	2.66	1.75	3.25	2.75	4.25	3	4.5	5	6.5
Small Falchion	-0.17	-0.17	0.67	0.67	1.34	2.67	3.5	5	4.75	6.25	6.42	7.92	7	8.5	8.78	10.28
Duelling Halberd	1.16	1.16	1	1	0.5	2	1.5	3	1.75	3.25	2.75	4.25	3	4.5	5	6.5
Katana 2	0.67	0.67	1	1	1.16	2.66	2.5	4	2.75	4.25	3.75	5.25	4	5.5	6	7.5
Halberd	2.66	2.66	2.5	2.5	2	3.5	3	4.5	3.25	4.75	4.25	5.75	4.5	6	6.5	8
Dao	1.33	1.33	2	2	2.5	4	4.16	5.66	4.75	6.25	5.75	7.25	6	7.5	8	9.5
Falchion	0.67	0.67	1.67	1.67	2.67	4.17	5	6.5	6.25	7.75	7.92	9.42	8.5	10	10.28	11.78
Large Falchion	1.67	1.67	2.66	2.66	3.5	5	5.5	7	6.41	7.91	7.75	9.25	8	9.5	9.94	11.44

Table 1: Advantage of average swing/cutting attack over thrust/impaling attack in points of injury

Let me just say right now that I'm posting this analysis as I do it. I don't know yet whether this is going to lead to something that will be useful at the table while actually gaming. I made these charts to see what general trends, if any, pop out, and also just for the hell of it. Will it ever pay off, or am I just noodling around? Stay tuned.

Here are the 23 weapon classes. Because GURPS Low-Tech changed the stats for some weapons, the large katar, shortsword, and cutlass appear twice, and are noted with (LT) in the list below. Some weapons can be wielded one-handed or two-handed, so these also appear twice. Note also that the naginata could be used one-handed with Broadsword skill in Basic Set, but Low-Tech removed that.

Eleven weapons are in classes by themselves:

• Katar
• Pata
• Large Katar (LT)
• Main Gauche
• Longsword 2
• Long Knife
• Kukri
• Small Falchion
• Dao
• Falchion
• Large Falchion

I named the other twelve classes after the weapon in the class I thought was most prominent.

• Saber -- saber, light edged rapier, large katar, shotel
• Large Knife -- large knife, bladed hand
• Small Knife -- small knife, bladed hand
• Bastard 2 -- bastard sword 2-handed, naginata 1-handed, dueling bill, dueling glaive
• Broadsword -- broadsword, bastard sword 1-handed, longsword 1-handed
• Jian - jian, edged rapier, shortsword (LT), cutlass (LT)
• Glaive -- naginata 2-handed, greatsword, bill
• Katana 1 -- katana 1-handed, late katana 1-handed, cavalry saber, backsword, qian ku ri yue dao
• Shortsword -- shortsword, cutlass
• Dueling Halberd -- dueling halberd, light horsecutter
• Katana 2 -- katana 2-handed, late katana 2-handed
• Halberd -- halberd, heavy horsecutter

I should point out the rule on maximum effective ST (B270). Your maximum effective ST with a weapon is three times its ST rating. If your ST is higher than that, then you do damage as if your ST were at the lower figure. So given that small knives have an ST rating of 5, if your ST is higher than 15, you do damage as if your ST were 15. This affects the small knife, large knife, katar, and main-gauche classes.

So, what does this chart tell us? Some obvious points are confirmed. If you have a falchion, a weapon designed for swinging, then you should swing it. Conversely, patas are made for thrusting.

Also obvious: swing damage climbs faster with ST than thrust damage does, so stronger characters are better off swinging with weapons where weaker ones are better off thrusting. So even though patas are made for thrusting, when you have enough ST, swinging a pata makes sense.

There are also some non-obvious things that turn up. There is a middle range of weapons that are built to be versatile, and it's good to know how you can best gain the advantage of your Strength with them. At ST 13, there are several weapons you're better thrusting with, where the same weapons in the hands of a ST 14 character would be more useful at a swing.

The real oddity here is that some weapons go back and forth between swing-is-better and thrust-is-better as you go up in ST. That's an artifact of the way the Basic Damage table is structured, with swing damage going up every step, but thrust damage going up only every other step. This is especially noticeable with the Bastard 2 class. I imagine a master-at-arms teaching students to use a bastard sword two-handed: "Alright, I've lined you up from weakest to strongest. You lot, up to here, you're better off making thrusting attacks. Now, you fellows, from here to here, are better off swinging. But from here to here -- you'd better go back to thrusting. Now, from here on, again, swinging is better. Oh, except for you and you -- it doesn't matter which way you go."

It's silly, and more than a little unrealistic, but does it really matter? Here's Table 2, which shows expected swing/cutting injury as a percentage of expected thrust-impaling injury. As before, a blue background, where numbers are less than 100%, means you're better off thrusting, and a yellow background, where numbers are above 100%, means you're better off swinging.

	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20
Katar	33	33	25	25	25	34	38	52	51	65	66	80	73	85	85	85
Pata	34	34	38	38	41	56	59	73	67	79	78	88	82	91	94	103
Large Katar-LT	33	33	34	34	38	52	56	72	66	80	79	90	83	93	97	106
Main Gauche	43	43	33	33	33	46	50	69	66	84	81	97	87	100	100	100
Longsword 2	50	50	52	52	56	72	73	86	79	90	88	98	91	100	103	111
Saber	44	44	46	46	50	69	71	93	81	97	93	107	96	108	111	121
Large Knife	43	43	44	44	46	67	69	94	84	104	97	114	100	114	114	114
Bastard 2	69	69	71	71	72	89	86	100	90	102	98	108	100	109	111	119
Small Knife	50	50	43	43	44	61	67	92	86	110	104	104	104	104	104	104
Broadsword	67	67	69	69	71	93	89	106	93	107	102	113	103	113	116	125
Jian	61	61	67	67	69	94	93	114	97	114	107	120	108	119	121	132
Long Knife	57	57	61	61	67	92	94	122	104	125	114	131	114	127	129	142
Glaive	94	94	93	93	89	106	100	114	102	113	108	118	109	118	119	128
Katana 1	89	89	92	92	94	122	114	136	114	131	120	134	119	131	132	143
Kukri	67	67	78	78	89	122	125	163	136	164	146	168	139	156	154	169
Shortsword	78	78	89	89	92	125	122	150	125	146	131	147	127	141	142	154
Small Falchion	92	92	134	134	158	215	217	267	219	256	220	249	200	221	207	225
Duelling Halberd	122	122	114	114	106	122	114	127	113	125	118	128	118	126	128	136
Katana 2	122	122	125	125	122	150	136	157	131	147	134	148	131	142	143	154
Halberd	150	150	136	136	122	139	127	141	125	137	128	138	126	135	136	144
Dao	157	157	167	167	163	200	178	206	168	189	164	181	155	168	167	179
Falchion	134	134	184	184	215	279	267	317	256	294	249	277	221	243	225	243
Large Falchion	184	184	214	214	217	267	238	275	220	248	211	232	189	206	199	214

Table 2: Advantage of average swing/cutting attack over thrust/impaling attack in percent

In some cases, I would say it does matter. At the transition from blue to yellow, most values aren't that far from 100%, but a few are large enough to make me want to pay attention. The jian class, for instance, which includes the jian, the edged rapier, and Low-Tech versions of the shortsword and cutlass. At ST 12 and 14, you're taking a 14% discount if you're not swinging. There appears to be no simple way to describe the patterns here, so I guess you just have to know where your advantages are. That's not that bad a problem, since most characters don't change weapons very often, and change ST even less often.

Overall, I think the chart shows that GURPS does a pretty good job of delivering results. The see-sawing effect with with some of the weapons in the middle range looks weird, but it doesn't look broken. I can live with a 14% difference in the blue-yellow border area. For the other weapons, the takeaway lesson is that you should try to use them as they were designed to be used -- thrust with a knife, unless you're very strong. Swing with a polearm, if at all possible.

Now, what about the effect of hit location and Damage Resistance? DR comes off before the wounding modifier, the neck offers a x2 cutting modifier, and the vitals a x3 impaling modifier. I expect that will change things somewhat, but I'll have to take that up at another time.

For the rest of this post, I'm just going to describe how I arrived at the tables above, in case anyone wants to double-check my work. You can ignore everything below here if you're not into the heavy number-crunching.

After compiling the list of all the thrust-impaling/swing-cutting weapons, I found that their damage statistics ran from Thrust-2 to Thrust+3 and Swing-3 to Swing+5. I created tables listing the damage roll for each of these stats at ST levels from 5 to 20.

	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20
Thr-2	1d-6	1d-6	1d-5	1d-5	1d-4	1d-4	1d-3	1d-3	1d-2	1d-2	1d-1	1d-1	1d	1d	2d-3	2d-3
Thr-1	1d-5	1d-5	1d-4	1d-4	1d-3	1d-3	1d-2	1d-2	1d-1	1d-1	1d	1d	1d+1	1d+1	2d-2	2d-2
Thr	1d-4	1d-4	1d-3	1d-3	1d-2	1d-2	1d-1	1d-1	1d	1d	1d+1	1d+1	1d+2	1d+2	2d-1	2d-1
Thr+1	1d-3	1d-3	1d-2	1d-2	1d-1	1d-1	1d	1d	1d+1	1d+1	1d+2	1d+2	1d+3	1d+3	2d	2d
Thr+2	1d-2	1d-2	1d-1	1d-1	1d	1d	1d+1	1d+1	1d+2	1d+2	1d+3	1d+3	1d+4	1d+4	2d+1	2d+1
Thr+3	1d-1	1d-1	1d	1d	1d+1	1d+1	1d+2	1d+2	1d+3	1d+3	1d+4	1d+4	1d+5	1d+5	2d+2	2d+2

Table 3: Damage rolls for thrusting attacks by ST

	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20
Sw-3	1d-6	1d-6	1d-5	1d-5	1d-4	1d-3	1d-2	1d-1	2d-4	2d-3	2d-2	2d-1	3d-4	3d-3	3d-2	3d-1
Sw-2	1d-5	1d-5	1d-4	1d-4	1d-3	1d-2	1d-1	1d	2d-3	2d-2	2d-1	2d	3d-3	3d-2	3d-1	3d
Sw-1	1d-4	1d-4	1d-3	1d-3	1d-2	1d-1	1d	1d+1	2d-2	2d-1	2d	2d+1	3d-2	3d-1	3d	3d+1
Sw	1d-3	1d-3	1d-2	1d-2	1d-1	1d	1d+1	1d+2	2d-1	2d	2d+1	2d+2	3d-1	3d	3d+1	3d+2
Sw+1	1d-2	1d-2	1d-1	1d-1	1d	1d+1	1d+2	1d+3	2d	2d+1	2d+2	2d+3	3d	3d+1	3d+2	3d+3
Sw+2	1d-1	1d-1	1d	1d	1d+1	1d+2	1d+3	1d+4	2d+1	2d+2	2d+3	2d+4	3d+1	3d+2	3d+3	3d+4
Sw+3	1d	1d	1d+1	1d+1	1d+2	1d+3	1d+4	1d+5	2d+2	2d+3	2d+4	2d+5	3d+2	3d+3	3d+4	3d+5
Sw+4	1d+1	1d+1	1d+2	1d+2	1d+3	1d+4	1d+5	1d+6	2d+3	2d+4	2d+5	2d+6	3d+3	3d+4	3d+5	3d+6
Sw+5	1d+2	1d+2	1d+3	1d+3	1d+4	1d+5	1d+6	1d+7	2d+4	2d+5	2d+6	2d+7	3d+4	3d+5	3d+6	3d+7

Table 4: Damage rolls for swinging attacks by ST

The next step was to calculate expected injury for each of these damage rolls. It was not possible to take the average of 1d, 2d, or 3d and apply simple arithmetic because of two complications. First, the minimum damage for cutting and impaling attacks is 1. That means it's not possible to say that the average of 1d is 3.5, so the average of 1d-2 is 1.5. In fact, the average of 1d-2 with a minimum of 1 is the average of (1, 1, 1, 2, 3, 4), which is 2. Roughly a third of the damage rolls had to be treated this way.

Second, for a x2 injury modifier, you can simply multiply the average damage roll by 2, but because of rounding, you can't treat cutting damage the same. Injury is rounded down, which means that the possible damage results from 1d, which are (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6) with an average of 3.5, become (1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 9) with the cutting injury modifier of 1.5. This gives an average of 5, rather than an average of 3.5 * 1.5 = 5.25.

The upshot of all this calculating is shown in table 5, which gives the average of the damage, cutting injury, and impaling injury for all the die rolls I worked with.

	Die Roll	x1.5	x2
1d-6	1.00	1.00	2.00
1d-5	1.00	1.00	2.00
1d-4	1.17	1.33	2.33
1d-3	1.50	1.83	3.00
1d-2	2.00	2.67	4.00
1d-1	2.67	3.67	5.33
1d	3.50	5.00	7.00
1d+1	4.50	6.50	9.00
1d+2	5.50	8.00	11.00
1d+3	6.50	9.50	13.00
1d+4	7.50	11.00	15.00
1d+5	8.50	12.50	17.00
1d+6	9.50	14.00	19.00
1d+7	10.50	15.50	21.00
2d-4	3.28	4.61	6.56
2d-3	4.11	5.89	8.22
2d-2	5.03	7.28	10.06
2d-1	6.00	8.75	12.00
2d	7.00	10.25	14.00
2d+1	8.00	11.75	16.00
2d+2	9.00	13.25	18.00
2d+3	10.00	14.75	20.00
2d+4	11.00	16.25	22.00
2d+5	12.00	17.75	24.00
2d+6	13.00	19.25	26.00
2d+7	14.00	20.75	28.00
3d-4	6.52	9.53	13.04
3d-3	7.50	11.00	15.00
3d-2	8.50	12.50	17.00
3d-1	9.50	14.00	19.00
3d	10.50	15.50	21.00
3d+1	11.50	17.00	23.00
3d+2	12.50	18.50	25.00
3d+3	13.50	20.00	27.00
3d+4	14.50	21.50	29.00
3d+5	15.50	23.00	31.00
3d+6	16.50	24.50	33.00
3d+7	17.50	26.00	35.00

Table 5: Expected die rolls and injury for cutting and impaling attacks

Equipped with these results, I converted tables 3 and 4, showing damage rolls, to tables 6 and 7, showing expected injury for thrust and swing attacks.

	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20
Thr-2	2	2	2	2	2.33	2.33	3	3	4	4	5.33	5.33	7	7	8.22	8.22
Thr-1	2	2	2.34	2.34	3	3	4	4	5.34	5.34	7	7	9	9	10.06	10.06
Thr	2.34	2.34	3	3	4	4	5.34	5.34	7	7	9	9	11	11	12	12
Thr+1	3	3	4	4	5.34	5.34	7	7	9	9	11	11	13	13	14	14
Thr+2	4	4	5.34	5.34	7	7	9	9	11	11	13	13	15	15	16	16
Thr+3	5.34	5.34	7	7	9	9	11	11	13	13	15	15	17	17	18	18

Table 6: Average injury for thrust/impaling attacks by ST

	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20
Sw-3	1	1	1	1	1.33	1.83	2.67	3.67	4.61	5.89	7.28	8.75	9.53	11	12.5	14
Sw-2	1	1	1.33	1.33	1.83	2.67	3.67	5	5.89	7.28	8.75	10.25	11	12.5	14	15.5
Sw-1	1.33	1.33	1.83	1.83	2.67	3.67	5	6.5	7.28	8.75	10.25	11.75	12.5	14	15.5	17
Sw	1.83	1.83	2.67	2.67	3.67	5	6.5	8	8.75	10.25	11.75	13.25	14	15.5	17	18.5
Sw+1	2.67	2.67	3.67	3.67	5	6.5	8	9.5	10.25	11.75	13.25	14.75	15.5	17	18.5	20
Sw+2	3.67	3.67	5	5	6.5	8	9.5	11	11.75	13.25	14.75	16.25	17	18.5	20	21.5
Sw+3	5	5	6.5	6.5	8	9.5	11	12.5	13.25	14.75	16.25	17.75	18.5	20	21.5	23
Sw+4	6.5	6.5	8	8	9.5	11	12.5	14	14.75	16.25	17.75	19.25	20	21.5	23	24.5
Sw+5	8	8	9.5	9.5	11	12.5	14	15.5	16.25	17.75	19.25	20.75	21.5	23	24.5	26

Table 7: Aveage injury for swing/cutting attacks by ST

Next I listed the weapons and copied their expected damage for thrust and swing attacks from tables 6 and 7 to create tables 8 and 9. Note that maximum effective ST for the katar, main-gauche, and large knife classes is 18, and for the small knife class it is 15.

	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20
Katar	3	3	4	4	5.34	5.34	7	7	9	9	11	11	13	13	13	13
Pata	5.34	5.34	7	7	9	9	11	11	13	13	15	15	17	17	18	18
Large Katar-LT	4	4	5.34	5.34	7	7	9	9	11	11	13	13	15	15	16	16
Main Gauche	2.34	2.34	3	3	4	4	5.34	5.34	7	7	9	9	11	11	11	11
Longsword 2	5.34	5.34	7	7	9	9	11	11	13	13	15	15	17	17	18	18
Saber	3	3	4	4	5.34	5.34	7	7	9	9	11	11	13	13	14	14
Large Knife	2.34	2.34	3	3	4	4	5.34	5.34	7	7	9	9	11	11	11	11
Bastard 2	5.34	5.34	7	7	9	9	11	11	13	13	15	15	17	17	18	18
Small Knife	2	2	2.34	2.34	3	3	4	4	5.34	5.34	7	7	7	7	7	7
Broadsword	4	4	5.34	5.34	7	7	9	9	11	11	13	13	15	15	16	16
Jian	3	3	4	4	5.34	5.34	7	7	9	9	11	11	13	13	14	14
Long Knife	2.34	2.34	3	3	4	4	5.34	5.34	7	7	9	9	11	11	12	12
Glaive	5.34	5.34	7	7	9	9	11	11	13	13	15	15	17	17	18	18
Katana 1	3	3	4	4	5.34	5.34	7	7	9	9	11	11	13	13	14	14
Kukri	2	2	2.34	2.34	3	3	4	4	5.34	5.34	7	7	9	9	10.06	10.06
Shortsword	2.34	2.34	3	3	4	4	5.34	5.34	7	7	9	9	11	11	12	12
Small Falchion	2	2	2	2	2.33	2.33	3	3	4	4	5.33	5.33	7	7	8.22	8.22
Duelling Halberd	5.34	5.34	7	7	9	9	11	11	13	13	15	15	17	17	18	18
Katana 2	3	3	4	4	5.34	5.34	7	7	9	9	11	11	13	13	14	14
Halberd	5.34	5.34	7	7	9	9	11	11	13	13	15	15	17	17	18	18
Dao	2.34	2.34	3	3	4	4	5.34	5.34	7	7	9	9	11	11	12	12
Falchion	2	2	2	2	2.33	2.33	3	3	4	4	5.33	5.33	7	7	8.22	8.22
Large Falchion	2	2	2.34	2.34	3	3	4	4	5.34	5.34	7	7	9	9	10.06	10.06

Table 8: Average thrust/impaling injury for various weapons by ST

	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20
Katar	1	1	1	1	1.33	1.83	2.67	3.67	4.61	5.89	7.28	8.75	9.53	11	11	11
Pata	1.83	1.83	2.67	2.67	3.67	5	6.5	8	8.75	10.25	11.75	13.25	14	15.5	17	18.5
Large Katar-LT	1.33	1.33	1.83	1.83	2.67	3.67	5	6.5	7.28	8.75	10.25	11.75	12.5	14	15.5	17
Main Gauche	1	1	1	1	1.33	1.83	2.67	3.67	4.61	5.89	7.28	8.75	9.53	11	11	11
Longsword 2	2.67	2.67	3.67	3.67	5	6.5	8	9.5	10.25	11.75	13.25	14.75	15.5	17	18.5	20
Saber	1.33	1.33	1.83	1.83	2.67	3.67	5	6.5	7.28	8.75	10.25	11.75	12.5	14	15.5	17
Large Knife	1	1	1.33	1.33	1.83	2.67	3.67	5	5.89	7.28	8.75	10.25	11	12.5	12.5	12.5
Bastard 2	3.67	3.67	5	5	6.5	8	9.5	11	11.75	13.25	14.75	16.25	17	18.5	20	21.5
Small Knife	1	1	1	1	1.33	1.83	2.67	3.67	4.61	5.89	7.28	7.28	7.28	7.28	7.28	7.28
Broadsword	2.67	2.67	3.67	3.67	5	6.5	8	9.5	10.25	11.75	13.25	14.75	15.5	17	18.5	20
Jian	1.83	1.83	2.67	2.67	3.67	5	6.5	8	8.75	10.25	11.75	13.25	14	15.5	17	18.5
Long Knife	1.33	1.33	1.83	1.83	2.67	3.67	5	6.5	7.28	8.75	10.25	11.75	12.5	14	15.5	17
Glaive	5	5	6.5	6.5	8	9.5	11	12.5	13.25	14.75	16.25	17.75	18.5	20	21.5	23
Katana 1	2.67	2.67	3.67	3.67	5	6.5	8	9.5	10.25	11.75	13.25	14.75	15.5	17	18.5	20
Kukri	1.33	1.33	1.83	1.83	2.67	3.67	5	6.5	7.28	8.75	10.25	11.75	12.5	14	15.5	17
Shortsword	1.83	1.83	2.67	2.67	3.67	5	6.5	8	8.75	10.25	11.75	13.25	14	15.5	17	18.5
Small Falchion	1.83	1.83	2.67	2.67	3.67	5	6.5	8	8.75	10.25	11.75	13.25	14	15.5	17	18.5
Duelling Halberd	6.5	6.5	8	8	9.5	11	12.5	14	14.75	16.25	17.75	19.25	20	21.5	23	24.5
Katana 2	3.67	3.67	5	5	6.5	8	9.5	11	11.75	13.25	14.75	16.25	17	18.5	20	21.5
Halberd	8	8	9.5	9.5	11	12.5	14	15.5	16.25	17.75	19.25	20.75	21.5	23	24.5	26
Dao	3.67	3.67	5	5	6.5	8	9.5	11	11.75	13.25	14.75	16.25	17	18.5	20	21.5
Falchion	2.67	2.67	3.67	3.67	5	6.5	8	9.5	10.25	11.75	13.25	14.75	15.5	17	18.5	20
Large Falchion	3.67	3.67	5	5	6.5	8	9.5	11	11.75	13.25	14.75	16.25	17	18.5	20	21.5

Table 9: Average swing/cutting injury for various weapons by ST

Finally, I used these two tables to compute tables 1 and 2, above.