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One thing that I have discovered is that the very thought of losing in a sword fight (a razor—sharp blade, mind you,) is somewhat unsettling, although I do write fantasy and I personally sword fight for fun.
What type of swords do you use? Roman short swords, broadswords, foils? (not real swords I assume)
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This isn’t exactly related to sword fighting, but do you know if a 1311 English battleaxe could penetrate a mail covered leather shirt?
I think a battleaxe, if held in the right hands, could penetrate almost any form of armor. It would actually be easier, I think, for a battleaxe to penetrate hard armor because there is solid resistance and something very substantial to cut, but if the blow struck on the mail covered leather shirt was not a glancing blow I think it would definitely ruin the shirt, possibly (very probably) the wearer.
Battleaxes are heavy combat weapons made more for brute strength, though I’m sure some amount of skill is involved, and so if you swing one hard enough you can probably put a sizable dent in the very thickest of armor.Oh yay! Thank you. I based my climax on the assumption that one could, so I am very glad to know that.
Unless it was top notch chainmail and just a so and so axe, but otherwise, yes.
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A question, Daeus, since you know a lot about swords. 🙂 In a book I am writing, I have a character who fights with a sword and shield against another soldier with a double pointed spear (a spear point on each end). The good guy has the sword and the bad guy has the spear. Do you have any sort of tips about a fight like that. Does either side have the advantage of weaponry or are they about even?
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Hi Hope,
They are about even, but (of course) it depends. The strategy of the swordsman must be to get past the pointy ends (where he can get cut) to the pole of the spear (where he can’t get cut). His opponent can respond in three ways. One, he might be able to pull back his spear and retreat fast enough that he can get the pointy ends in front of the protagonist again, but then again, he might not be able to do that. Two, he could start using his spear like a quarter staff. Three, he could forget about his spear and resort to a dagger or his fists.
The fact that the protagonist has a shield helps him a lot. This greatly increases his chances of getting past the pointy ends. The one advantage of the spear wielder is that his weapon is so long that all he has to do is move his hands just slightly and the points of his spear can move from any part of the body to the other. Such speed can be tricky to combat.
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I’m reviving this topic so I don’t have to make a new one.
And I have a question. A while back I looked up a lot of basic tutorials on all sorts of bladed weapons, just to get a few tips and such, and I noticed that a lot of the dagger techniques are very similar to wrestling techniques.
Does anyone here know anything about that? Or anything about wrestling, for that matter?
Anyone?No, but I’m not very surprised about the similarities between dagger fighting and wrestling. Actually, many fighting forms have great similarities and all at least some. Boxing for instance actually developed from people trying to fence without swords when dueling was illegal. Of course pugilism has always been around, but I mean boxing as we know it today.
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