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what sword

Muslim scimitar (sharpest sword known to man)

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LOTR long sword

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ingold55

Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2006 9:00 pm

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what weapon would you chose if you had to?

Glamdring

Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2006 11:42 pm

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I probably would use the LOTR long sword. (I don’t really like curved swords that much....)

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Posted: Mon Nov 20, 2006 3:14 am

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Posted: Mon Nov 20, 2006 9:00 am

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Schimitar

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Posted: Mon Nov 20, 2006 10:07 am

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The overall fighting style of the scimitar seems more elegant to me. It is also much more conducive to cavalry fighting as the blade allowed for sliding cuts vs mounted and unmounted opponents. Not much of a thrusting weapon, but still deadly. Having seen demonstrations of what can be done with a good blade (cleaving tatami mats rolled to about the thickness and consistency of a human torso in half), sharp is good. Very Happy

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CarpeGuitarrem

Posted: Mon Nov 20, 2006 1:54 pm

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I’m not one for brute strength, although the scimitar would require a bit of skill. I love skill over strength, it’s almost unfair.

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TheHobbit13

Posted: Thu Dec 07, 2006 6:27 pm

Joined: 27 Jul 2006 Posts: 1303 Location: minnesota

ScimiTAR bECAUSE tHE LONG SWORD REPESENTS BRUTE STREGHTH AND THE SCIMITAR REPESENTS STRATEGY

LunaticFringe

Posted: Thu Dec 07, 2006 8:16 pm

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Amateurs.

A scimitar/falchion was fashioned to cleave apart lighter plate or leather armor or maille. The perceived sharpness difference was based on the fact that as the blade comes across flesh, it makes a longer gash than a european sword. You know, the whole broad swath that some of you think the longsword was made for. The material stregnth and sharpness was never any better than that of it’s european counterpart of the period.

A longsword was made to drive a single, sharp point through heavy plate, or extend that point into an unarmored place in the receiver’s person. The very definition of precision. Sure it could sit there and beat you to death through your nice big breastplate, but it wasn’t made for such combat. It’s existance was based around the style of heavy combat of the time. Great hammers and axes were used to crush men inside the very armor meant to protect them. Longswords were intended to give a combatant an extention of his reach, not a one to one match with the axe or hammer. Had beating through armor been the intent, the bearer would have been better served using the same style of weapon as his opponent.

How many here have ever picked up a real sword? Not some United Cutlery movie replica piece, or some cheap katana knockoff you find at your local flea market; an honest to goodness impliment of death, 36" or longer. A sword with any time forged and tempered for battle will not carry anywhere near as much weight as you think. Longswords didn’t catch axes and great hammers in combat. They lacked the stregnth. They moved around them, and stabbed those that carried them. You’re not going to throw a broad swath at a man’s chest when his implement will crush your very lungs behind the steel you’re wearing. Either you mean for that swath to take off his limb, his head, or you’re feinting to put the pointy end on him.

The funniest part of this discussion is when you consider the progression of european arms through the centuries before the advent of reliable firearms. Eurpoean armies carried heavy plates and maille in resistane to archery and small arms. The further armor progressed, the thinner the european blade became, ever with the intent to drive more and more force into a more accurate and defined space. Longsword gave way to rapier and epee, ever thinner, but never any shorter.

Don’t let the length of the blade fool you. The only reason a longsword carrying individual would throw a broad swing at an opponent would be due to their lack of armor. If they’re enough of a chump to walk onto the field without protection, heads rolling off necks is their loss. But then, given that this generation’s idea of swordplay comes from too much Star Wars and the tales of the clan McLeod, it doesn’t take much to figure out the misconceptions. I mean, everybody knows you take a blow blade to blade, and that two katanas coming togather make all sorts of cool sparks.

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TheHobbit13

Posted: Sun Dec 10, 2006 2:36 pm

Joined: 27 Jul 2006 Posts: 1303 Location: minnesota

I and why did you write a 5 paragraph answer for a simple question.

bobtheorc

Posted: Sun Dec 10, 2006 3:08 pm

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NICE post LunaticFringe, are you into dueling at all?

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