New Class Idea

[Niwashi]

That's what I meant when I said that: farming scythes were never used as weapons of war.

But it would be more accurate to say that professionally trained and equipped soldiers didn't use farming scythes as their weapon. Farmers, on the other hand, certainly did use farming scythes, as well as pitchforks or whatever other tools they had at hand, as weapons of war. Wars don't generally stay neatly contained to a battlefield where only soldiers are at risk.

....except again, farming scythes were NEVER used in combat, hence why they were modified to something more practical, more specifically against the cavalry units most likely to be found terrorizing rural areas.

The other way around. The reason why they were modified to be more practical in combat is because they were being used for combat (which their original form wasn't particularly well suited to, hence the modifications). If the originals were only being used for farming, there would have been no reason for such modifications to them. It was people who had to fight wars with farming tools as their only weapons who worked out how to turn those tools into more effective weapons.