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Mechafunkzilla
Sep 11, 2006

If you want a vision of the future...

gyrobot posted:

So what led to the trend of "lightly armored warrior with either a hulking sword or is a brilliant duelist" can easily overwhelm men in armor? The Barbarian simply just use sheer strength to overwhelm the guy without armor to weight him down while the guy who is a duelist can outfence the guy with a sword and broad before striking him down with a knife in the throat

I, too, would like to know at which point medieval combat became video games.

e: actual question -- how exactly did fencing develop? Was it basically just the sportification of the increasingly obsolete art of fighting with a blade?

Mechafunkzilla fucked around with this message at 21:22 on Jan 25, 2013

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