And what I propose then is to put the shield bash on a paladin, why, because a paladin will always have a shield where as a knight wont. And it will give a good means of making two handed weapons worthwhile.
The downfall would be adjusting the dammage of paladin to match the knight.

Edit
The Great two handed sword was extremely long but they had two places for hand hold due to their size , it was not like the Katana by any means.