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It's situational. You want a straight sword if fighting one-on-one, armoured opponents, or in a confined space. You want a curved sword if you want to look like a loving clown and die immediately.
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My curved swords bring crusaders to the yard
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Oct 25, 2021 01:34
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the best sword is a mace look at the watermark. even THEY know its the best sword 
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Oct 25, 2021 01:38
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jarofpiss posted:swords are so fuckin cool Swords aren't cool! They'll fuckin slice a baby in half!
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Oct 25, 2021 01:41
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This all depends on whether a macuahuitl counts as a sword
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Oct 25, 2021 01:55
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I'm not fighting that god damned chicken but it's important to know what the orangutan is going to be wielding in a year
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Oct 25, 2021 02:35
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GolfHole posted:fun fact: most peasant rebellions and successful anti-imperial hegemonies ended up winning battles against heavy armored opponents by virtue of weapons that reached AROUND shields Just chop the tree branch in half with your katana idiots.
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Oct 25, 2021 03:33
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best 3d fighting game ever made
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Oct 25, 2021 03:51
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reading that they used to cover the wolf’s brush spears in poison. Nice
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Oct 25, 2021 03:59
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Swords are really good for cutting down unarmed peasants. Polearms are better for fighting in war, but the kingdom ain’t usually at war, is it?
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Oct 25, 2021 04:27
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Mumpy Puffinz posted:depends if your riding a horse or not
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Oct 25, 2021 04:29
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That's like bringing a sword to a food fight
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Oct 25, 2021 19:35
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Nigmaetcetera posted:Swords are really good for cutting down unarmed peasants. Polearms are better for fighting in war, but the kingdom ain’t usually at war, is it? Class war is eternal.
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Oct 25, 2021 19:48
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Seems like curved swords would be stronger, all else being equal. But then I'm not a sword weeb
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Oct 25, 2021 19:50
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IAWTOP
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https://youtu.be/03N27COiLJU
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Oct 26, 2021 02:39
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Mozi posted:IAWTOP Whilst this sword is indeed technically curved, it belongs to a different subset of "wiggly swords".
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Oct 26, 2021 03:12
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BrigadierSensible posted:Whilst this sword is indeed technically curved, it belongs to a different subset of "wiggly swords". It is the duck penis of swords. Also how about a board or baseball/cricket bat with one or more large, possibly rusty nails through it? I think that's better than a not-curved sword too.
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Oct 26, 2021 03:25
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nice falx idiot
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Oct 26, 2021 03:27
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BrigadierSensible posted:Whilst this sword is indeed technically curved, it belongs to a different subset of "wiggly swords". i would argue it's hypercurved
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While I could be misremembering something I read a decade ago, I want to say that around the Napoleonic wars, the English (or someone who was in a coliltion with them at the time?) had assigned a whole cadre of officers/doctors to figure out why the French cavalry seemed more deadly than their own. So, a near-official commission, but hush-hush unofficial for morale you know) gathered a whole bunch of first-hand reports of enemy cavalry attacks and also engagements by their own mounted troops. The final report noted that while their own force's cavalry (mainly armed with curved swords and trained to cut and slash with them) did indeed cause a great deal of bloody and grevious-looking wounds, the French cavalry (mostly using straight, thrusting blades) caused more casualties and inflicted higher proportion of fatal wounds. I wonder if the "curved is better for horseback" thing is a traditional/training thing or a workaround-design for dealing with less reliable metallurgy? Maybe a comboination of the two?
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Oct 26, 2021 04:47
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Mozi posted:i would argue it's hypercurved Curved in four dimensions so it cuts things that haven't come to pass
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Oct 26, 2021 12:34
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polearm supremacy
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Oct 26, 2021 12:38
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Narrowing my eyes looking at the battlefield, yelling at my heavily bandaged caddy to get me my french estoc longsword as he drops them all again
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ChairmanMauzer posted:Indian sword whips best swords. true https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMAsCuDFSUI
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Xaintrailles posted:It's situational. You want a straight sword if fighting one-on-one, armoured opponents, or in a confined space. You want a curved sword if you want to look like a loving clown and die immediately.  signalnoise posted:This all depends on whether a macuahuitl counts as a sword swords are made of metal, sorry azteca, maybe discover iron metallurgy or something if you wanna join the conversation LMAO
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Oct 26, 2021 13:07
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What noise is this? Give me my long sword, ho!
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Roumba posted:While I could be misremembering something I read a decade ago, I want to say that around the Napoleonic wars, the English (or someone who was in a coliltion with them at the time?) had assigned a whole cadre of officers/doctors to figure out why the French cavalry seemed more deadly than their own. So, a near-official commission, but hush-hush unofficial for morale you know) gathered a whole bunch of first-hand reports of enemy cavalry attacks and also engagements by their own mounted troops. The final report noted that while their own force's cavalry (mainly armed with curved swords and trained to cut and slash with them) did indeed cause a great deal of bloody and grevious-looking wounds, the French cavalry (mostly using straight, thrusting blades) caused more casualties and inflicted higher proportion of fatal wounds. english cavalry: SABER AND GLORY!!!! french (mixed) cavalry: wtf, they are using sabers? jesus christ. alright, well, get out the old curiassess and lances from the 100 years war. turns out min/maxing is good in war
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hot cocoa on the couch posted:swords are made of metal, sorry azteca, maybe discover iron metallurgy or something if you wanna join the conversation LMAO 
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Roumba posted:While I could be misremembering something I read a decade ago, I want to say that around the Napoleonic wars, the English (or someone who was in a coliltion with them at the time?) had assigned a whole cadre of officers/doctors to figure out why the French cavalry seemed more deadly than their own. So, a near-official commission, but hush-hush unofficial for morale you know) gathered a whole bunch of first-hand reports of enemy cavalry attacks and also engagements by their own mounted troops. The final report noted that while their own force's cavalry (mainly armed with curved swords and trained to cut and slash with them) did indeed cause a great deal of bloody and grevious-looking wounds, the French cavalry (mostly using straight, thrusting blades) caused more casualties and inflicted higher proportion of fatal wounds. curved swords require significantly better metallurgy than hard point swords (which break easy) curved are definitely stronger if you wanted a sword for life you'd buy a curved one.
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luv to have one of the most dangerous melee weapons ever known to exist bounce harmlessly off my enemies armour because i can't stab with it, and then shatter because it is made of extremely brittle glass obsidian is way sharper than steel, but it makes a primitive weapon fit only for chopping up primitive opponents (and slaves  )
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Oct 26, 2021 14:36
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that thing is for taking live captives its not a sword
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Oct 26, 2021 14:40
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also it can't be made curved so it's automatically disqualified from this thread, wrap it up aztecailures
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Oct 26, 2021 14:42
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Swords not words!
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Oct 26, 2021 14:47
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if the penis mightier than the sword, is the curved penis even mightier than that?
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Oct 26, 2021 14:48
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Mozi posted:if the penis mightier than the sword, is the curved penis even mightier than that? I hear that's the best for hitting the g spot, so yes
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Oct 26, 2021 15:45
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Why hasn’t anyone posted that video of the guy in jorts dispatching a scarecrow in his back yard? GBS is slipping.
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Oct 26, 2021 16:21
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GolfHole posted:curved swords require significantly better metallurgy than hard point swords (which break easy) Oh, word? Neat to know. Roumba fucked around with this message at 23:58 on Oct 26, 2021 |
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My father gave me a katana for by birthday this year. Real nice one, gorgeous looking sucker. I had once told him I thought that they were pretty cool so he remembered that. Very touching gift because of that. I told him that when I was 16. I turned 46 in April. That tragic tale is my back story; the one that has lead me to this life. The life of the sword.
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He only now thinks you are ready.
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