User blog comment:TheDarkKnightHasRisen/AC IV ideas/@comment-4999424-20121013170059/@comment-5088097-20121013193049

The primary weapons of those time settings were GUNS. Ubisoft will never take the AC franchise there, those settings are unoriginal and boring. The only weapon that could come close to a blade is the bayonet... and maybe a Swish army knife. Other than that... no blades.