I think you underestimate the effectiveness of the LTC blade geometry. It's a very effective chopper, due to holding so much of its weight near the tip, but the deep recurve means it will blow a bowie style blade completely out of the water when doing things like clearing brush. It also weighs bit less than the FBM.

The only place where a straight blade would completely outshine the LTC in this 3-blade combination would be batoning, but I've beaten my LTC through some tough logs and never had it fail on me. It would have probably been a bit easier with a thicker bowie, but I'm willing to make that tradeoff for the slashing capabilities.



Now, if the question was limited to only ONE knife, instead of three, the LTC wouldn't be my choice - it absolutely sucks for any kind of detail work, and I would want a straight handled blade for that.