Sorry, not a sword buff. What are the kind that have part of the blade facing backwards?
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Sorry, not a sword buff. What are the kind that have part of the blade facing backwards?
a reverse blade swor? from samurai x
romans used spears with their sheild wall because they relied on their opponants running into them, when your packed close togeather it becomes harder to deal with a spear. when you have space around you it's easy to deal with an opponant with a spear. the romans adopted gladius because they were small and cheaper to produce, smaller for their close knit working. they basically won victories by haveing VAST numbers and hiding behind a sheild wall, hence they mainly used spears, but once the opposition is pressing against your sheild wall and YOU have no room to move a spear becomes useless (you need distance) and they drew their small little swords and started thrusting blindly (by romans own accounts). this ONLY worked if your forces were foolish enough to fight romans on open ground and charge into their borglike shield walls. on a one on one bases romans were weaker warriors. the celts tore roman legions apart by useing gorilla warefare.....acttacking legions as they walked through forests because romans couldnt survive unless all grouped togeather behind a sheild wall. - and that was by romans accounts, some of their best legions that were defeated. it's funny but the only time romans "cliamed" to win was when we (celts) did things that were totally out fo our nature and more roman than celtic.....like fighting on a open feild and poisening ourselves.
if you have VAST numbers that can all hide behind a defensive wall and intimidate such a way, then you have more chance of winning. dont forget, the romans were masters of propaganda, even today we are only just discovering the lies they told about cultures who they wanted to besmurch. they always tried to bribe, blackmail and currupt cultures they wanted to invade first.....with fine items, trade and fashions....then once in they began to batter, beat and rape not to mention take slavery to a new level. they often tried to avoid combat because they NEEDED such setup situations to win.
yeah...a blade that points towards you..now THATS stupid lol :love:
time to deduce the obvious....
1. the romans did not always run around in a turtle formation.
2.the roman army was not composed entirely of shield carrying blood lusting loonies, there were archers, mounted calvery, infentry, so on and so forth.
3.the romans (roman soldiers) were good fighters, not the best one on one as the spartains proved. They were also good tactitions, also not the best proven by Ben Her and Attila the hun.
4. where are the accounts of the romans coming from...i haven't seen many legions marching around lately :cool:
5. i honestly do not care what the roman's did.
who said anything about a turtle formation? their fav was points forming a massive saw so that incoming opponants were forced into an unweildy shape.
actually the majority of the roman army was blood lusting loonies who were kept on a leesh...read some history and by their own confesstion they do unspeable things similar to the nazis. however they often prefferd to use cavalry to mop up fleeing opponants and their archers when their opponants werent stupid enough to fall for their formation traps i didnt talk about them because we were talking about sworplay
Romes main objective was not to simply take over teh world....but to assimilate. each culture and civilisation they invaded and subdued they assimilated aspects of that culture and claimed it for themselves...hence the greek gods and goddess. MOST of their warefare, tactics, weapon advances were assimilated, so no, thye werent that good at all, the people who they stole from were. as for them being good fighters....no they werent. tactics isnt good fighting, and having looked at many of their tactics as a warrior i can see glareing holes in which to defeat them. do you mistake me for someone whos playing here...many times ive fought for me life or to save others, everything i teach about sword combat is REAL, life and death against real weapons. you dont have to belive me, thats your choice, but im a pro, so im happy that i know.
your lucky to have not seen legions. however re-inactment is still taken seriously and professtionally over here and so, althought they look like a bunch of girls, you will find entire roman ligions of people attending historical battles in kit that cost thousands of pounds, as you will celts and vikings. Most events are run by English heritige as both an educational establishment for the masses but also to fund the preservation of our historical monuments...thus why roman legions do still walk the earth. however, like the arabs of the cursader age, romans prided themslevs on keeping historicle records, much of what we know about eh ancient worlds are from records and information kept by often the most hostile cultures. however we are also discovering that these historicle records were often intended to alter history and reality entirely in favour of the attackers. everything written down....thats where im getting my facts from.
you may not care what atrocities romans did......but you should be interested in cultures if your into swords. swords differ form culture to culture because that culture had differnt needs and ideas. for example, celtic swords were beutiful individualistic works of art because the celts were great artists.....while the gladius was run of the mill mass produced and cheap because the romans were essentially a factory, mass production. by understanding a culture (you dont have to like them) you understand the purpose of a sword.
the same goes for sword combat.....every sword has developed the way it has for a particular cultures landscape, but today we mix. there fore it's no shame to accpet that some swords are very weak and arent balanced like a good weapon should be
The Turkish-Caucasian Yatagan is the best. (just saying that cause i'm from there. so no debate.)
http://www.oriental-arms.com/photos/...00667/ph-0.jpg
http://www.vikingsword.com/i2/e763f.jpg
Where's the bastard sword?
Those swords kick ass. Its also known as a hand and a half sword, due to its ability to be wielded with one or two hands.
/me owns one, its quite nice, if a bit heavy on one hand to someone who's never used a sword before like me. Although its one-handed balance is quite nice.
I have a lot of respect for the katana. The intricacies in the forgery, the grace....wow....
here is my sword:
katanas are the best though a daimond katana would be even better....
Bah, that's useless compared to the banana sword!Quote:
Originally Posted by mr. anderson
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Turk.....i dont think theirs a better one than teh celtic leafblade....but thats because im celtic :) really it doesnt matter, they arent teh weapon, we are, they dont jupom up and fight on their own. i think you made a pretty choice, it would look good on a mantlepeice. (on a combat note the lack of quillions would mean you had to be very careful even just playing with it)
Jebus, the hand and a half, two hander and single hander are classed as BroadSword. you would never use a hand and a half singlehanded because it's impossible to do your blows properly with it (only do so if your wounded). you hold one hand close to the quillions lightly, the other hand rests on the Pommel and steers the sword. the hand next to the wuillion simply takes the waight.
for all the effort in making katanas, they are far to brittle. they can look nice to many people, they can be better than nothing...but
for me....thers so many inherint weakness in the simple style (look, form and shape) of the katana that you end up having to put extra effort in to make up for it's weakness. on the other hand....it makes n easy battle fighting someone whos useing one
I actually have 3 katanas and a tanto actually. Soon's I can get a camera, I'll try to post pics.
i only have two swords, a 2 hand broad sword and a sword that i dont know what it is, it is like the one i n blade, the blade sword, but is a bit shoreter, a little thicker and has a solid wood handel
i didn't put dowm the name bastard sword of two reasons... one i was out of room....and two the last time i even said damn somebody complained...damn political correctness...
i think i already said this once, this is about real swords...the banana sword doesn't fall into that catagory.