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Post by Nobuhide on Apr 13, 2005 20:40:13 GMT -5
Why do people always inflate weapons for SCA ? When I fight in hoplite kit, I often have success with my tiny little side-arm sword after losing my spear. If you want to use a big tachi, well I guess you can, but it seems that yari, naginata and nagamaki were much more common as the main weapon - your katana would, in period, have been your side-arm. But people keep using 4' long sword. If you honoured gentles want to have more reach, why not use a more common period weapon? If you want a long sword, that would be, what, the horseman's tachi of the Kamakura period, right? If you want the romance and myth of "The Katana", well, make a realistically-sized katana & get up-close and personal with you opponent - like the Spartan matron told her son when he complained that his sword was too short: "Add a step forward to it." heres a scenario. spearman thrusts, swordman parries to the left, reverses and snaps em in the face/head while they recover. of course it would take more time and tactic to go against an expirienced warrior, but its quite do-able
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