To speed up combat I used the condensed combat system. This uses one table for all similar weapons, so all swords are on the same page but with pluses and minuses verses specific ATs. The critical table is on the same page as are the most common OB mods. I can run an entire combat with everything on one page. As I have printed off the combat pages I rearely need more than two pages for any fight so I can have them facing each other in a folder and never have to turn a page or refer to another book for the entire fight.
Another advantage is that the critical are written for specific weapons so you do not have slash/puncture/krush criticals any more you have sword/arrow/war hammer criticals such as
Stabbing down as hard as you can you drive your blade
behind his collar bone. +12 hits, bleeding 3 hits per rnd, -20
to all actions and stunned no parry 1 rnd.
Your strike hacks deep into his thigh but stops at the bone.
+13 hits, bleeding 4 hits/rnd and stunned no parry for 1 rnd.
The arrow head stabs into his hip and the arrow juts out at an
odd angle, quivering. +10 hits, bleeding 4 hits/rnd and
stunned no parry 1 rnd.
The end of your weapon goes right through his guard and
knocks the wind out of him. +13 hits, stunned for 3 rnds and
unable to parry for 1 rnd.
All of those criticals are for exactly the same roll on the chart but for different types of weapon.