Talk:Nami Skyla/@comment-64.253.24.167-20140512141548/@comment-88.112.194.81-20140627001411

Cutlasses were per definitionem rather short blades. What with being navy issue intented for shipboard use, where conditions were often rather cramped. If you wanted reach you picked up a boarding pike (bit of a misnomer really as most were only like 2m long as opposed to the 5-6m of proper infantry pikes, making them but middling spears) or -axe (many of which were later recycled into fire axes).