Really tells at what distance the fight took place back in the day (face to face pretty much) and how rare is the latter to happen now. I recall a commentary from a battlefield in Ukraine saying "look at the soldiers fighting at spitting distance" while back in that day there was almost no other way of fighting. And the aesthetics have changed so much too...
Yes and this is why I said how good one must have been, imagine wearing that heavy armor and handling the heavy sword as well.
Today we have all kinds of weapons and wars are not always happen in the field.