No.418494 [View All]
What's your fave weapon for when you have to get up close & personal? Knives, swords, spears, clubs?
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No.422642
>>422632
"End him rightly" is such a shit meme
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No.422708
>>422642
it was moderately funny before hema eceleb faggots and their lackeys have started to use it constantly.
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No.422711
>>422708
It wasn't a meme until the "was too fat but now is too dying of aids reviewing weapons" e-celeb started forcing it.
It was never a good meme.
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No.422719
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No.422734
>>422719
Pretty sure he's talking about Skallagrim
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No.422739
>>422711
I wouldn't really say he forced but his fandom did.
>dying of aids
Wait, what? Really?
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No.422740
>>422739
Hopefully not, but it fits the symptoms he's showing.
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No.422741
>>422740
>symptoms
Like what? I don't watch most of his videos so maybe I didn't notice.
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No.422762
>>422741
Quick deterioration of his weight that can't be explained via exercise; random coughing while streaming implies a weakened immune system; random bruises showing up in places that make little sense for bruising.
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No.422766
>>422232
Maybe they aren't more over-designed, but they definitely are more impractical.
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No.422768
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No.422785
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No.422792
>>422708
It literally started with an e-celeb faggot
I mean, he's not the worst, but, he's never been that good
Plus, to be honest, I have a tad of issue with the whole declaring it to be nonsense thing. In high stress situations where vision is incredibly limited, distracting movement or sensation could be highly effective at lowering your adversary's guard.
Chucking a pommel isn't going to do damage, but, it might force a guard up, leaving you the chance to go underneath.
Instead, faggots think it's a joke.
Just cancer.
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No.422800
>>422792
He thought it was a joke for a pretty good reason. In the manual he found it in, it was presented as a joke making light of dueling rules and how to score points.
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No.422806
>>422800
>>422792
Here's the whole story, as far as I know:
He found this technique in a dueling manual that he just couldn't make any sense off.
>Completely unscrew the pommel of your sword and throw it at the opponent. Then charge in and finish him. Do all this while also holding your shield and spear being only a few feet away from your opponent. Both you and your opponent are also wearing full heavy armor.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jETLCm7k3sU
This then became a joke in his comment section and slowly spread to other sword e-celebs. Some games even included this reference.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9d2fwin7Mlc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5TZizbPFJ0
ThegnThrand made a good reply to it, with one of their trademark "only dangerous testing is good testing" videos.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJzLfQ-xVY0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xah719fm8Ek
Skallagrim later made a followup in which he mentions that video and states that it makes more sense than he first thought.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCRE0Wk4F2o
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No.422812
>>422768
Fuck you with a fucking anchor. Don't you even dare.
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No.422838
>>418494
Lance and Great Sword. Go big or go home!
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No.422845
>>422768
That filth is already more than decade old.
Nice reminder that I spend third of my life on fucking imageboards.
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No.422849
>>418494
It's not practical, it has almost no range, it's flimsy, it's awkward to carry and stow, it doesn't have many non-battle uses either. But it does look pretty cool.
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No.422860
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No.422866
>>422768
>>422860
But who would draw such atrocities?
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No.422870
>>422866
An obese transracial lesbian who used to be a big lolcow back in the day.
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No.422878
>>422870
I can believe obese, but "transracial lesbian"? Who is this?
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No.422885
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No.422893
>>422768
>stainless steel and gold
G A L V A N I C A C T I O N
>>422766
The X-Blade while top heavy is not overly offensive to look at, it's surprisingly to the point considering how KH Ultima Weapon looks.
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No.422910
>ctrl+f "stapler glued to board"
> 0 results
Why bother with you plebs?
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No.422918
>>422893
Stop thinking too much, it's the ultimate material of STANLESS steel. No "i".
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No.423693
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>>418816
>Although sword bayonet and rifle butt is also a good choice.
Indeed. It's so god tier that a modified version of this is still in use today.
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No.423722
>>422910
>stapler glued to board
So wait, you smash someone with it, and he gets stapled?
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No.423723
>>423722
Poor man's gunblade
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No.423725
>>423723
It's simple, it has the vibe of a shank, it might even be effective.
So far I like it, someone per chance have one?
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No.423766
>>423725
Could you take a one handed mallet, and fix a shotgun shell to the striking surface in a way that would force the shell down onto a firing pin when it's struck against an object?
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No.423773
>>423766
I remember something about a makeshift gun someone made by using a metal tube, putting in a bullet and smashing the backside with a hammer.
If you put a small pebble behind the backside of the bullet and then paste the whole with cheap glue (so that the bullet pushes through it when force is applied) the bullet will go off...in theory at least.
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No.423876
Alright, someone sell me on the billhook. What makes it so great? I can see a decent thrust and I'm certain the hook can pull mounted combatants easily, or just yank people by their armor.
What else is there? Why are so many people here crazy about it? I'm genuinely curious since there are quite a few polearms capable of this, but maybe this one is special somehow?
As for my own pick, I'd go for a ranseur, but a folding spetum seems extremely tempting for style and an incredibly destructive thrust alone.
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No.423879
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No.423888
>>423876
>Alright, someone sell me on the billhook
You get a poking bit (that pretty much functions more or less like an arming spear), a hooking bit (that is very useful in formation use as it lets you open an opponent up for a strike from the man standing next to you), and a cutting bit (that will fuck up anyone not wearing top tier armour). You basically get three weapons on one stick. That flexibility is a huge selling point, and particularly English heavy infantry used it very well creating a bit of a meme about it - especially as it was fairly unusual in a time when polearms were dominated by various types of spear/pike.
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No.423889
>>419093
I'd like to point out a kanobo is just an old fashioned bat with nails stuck in it.
At no point in time has a heavy stick with nubs not been a great weapon. Always just fucking works too, you can add all the padding you want; A bigger stick's still gonna break you.
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No.423891
In all settings that allow it I have a long-standing love affair with halberds, if I have to go something eastern then I go naginata, but it's just not the same. If I can't get away with polearms, then the good old-fashioned fuckoff sword fills the void until I can wrap both of my hands around the meaty shaft of my polearm once more.
>>420816
>>420817
>>420819
Whatever we did to piss you off, we're sorry already. I'm pretty sure this violates some kind of international law.
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No.423897
>>423888
It's also a very good weapon to equip your levies with, as because it's basically a military version of a common farming tool they'd likely be very familar with it.
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No.423920
>>420586
Nobody's going to bother asking questions to the guy dragging a billhook through town. That guy's clearly not going to give a fuck.
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No.423922
>>423920
>>423876
Seems to me like it's the new /tg/ kool kidz weapon. Just like halbard was before.
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No.423930
>>423922
It could be worse, someone could have asked about the Lucerne Hammer.
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No.423932
>>423930
If you think about it a walking cane with a metal handle is pretty much a hammer. You could walk around with that as long as the head is decorative.
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No.423942
>>423932
Which is why it has been a meme weapon more then once.
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No.423983
>>423942
>There is no OC, there is only copypasta
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No.423991
>>423876
More or less what >>423888 said. The primary advantages are that you can use it for just about anything. Whether that be fighting standard infantry, unseating cavalry, or hassling armored types.
It's a classic "jack of all trades" weapon. And, it doesn't really suffer too much in the lack of a specialization.
Gives you a massive heap of options in any given fight, with really the only weakness being that it's easy to catch on something. But, then, that's also an advantage if you have mates.
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No.425843
I like the two-handed jian, the Patton sabre, the Pattern 1796 light cavalry sabre, the Woodsman's Pal, and the kunai.
Knifewise, I like the Jim Hammond Flesheater, the Tom Brown Jr. Tracker, Joe Kious' Stormbringer subhilt, the Iron Mistress Bowie, the Mike Echanis Warrior knife, the smachet and the Massad Ayoob Spyderco folder.
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No.426123
Plenty. Awlpike/Ahlspiess, Messer, Maces.
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No.426144
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>>426123
There was a Messer in the Steven Seagal movie, Out Of Reach.
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No.426210
>>419671
I do full contact sword fighting with proper armor and normal humans (no edgelords, everyone is okay with taking a hit).
Its extreme fun, don't let anyone stop you. Just the feeling of finding your own sword (a real one, we use rockwell21 (yes, kinda soft, but since we all have around that strenght its alright) without sharp edges and we don't stab towards the eyeholes, everything else goes.
I train with many people, but even the guys that do various material arts and have years more of expierence lose to a spear.
Spear [untrained] > [2h Sword, trained, 1h Sword Trained, 1h+shield, 1h+kiteshield]
We do the 7 point system, you want 7 points to win, a 3rd person judges, hit on the head is worth 4 points, body 3, legs 2, arms 1 - if the enemy hits you back withhin the same sec, you even out. (hit chest vs counter-hit arm = 3-1 = 2 points)
The spear is easy to use, the range is GODLY and thats all you need. Honestly, you feel 3-5 cm (A inch) of lenght difference in sword fighting and you will always feel the fucking spear before you reach that motherfucker.
Personally, I'd avoid fighting a fucker with a spear, but when I have to I usually use a very silly combination - a kite shield and a parrying dagger (with many catching points) to establish a point of contact (you feel a lot of movements during the contact - they go hard, you go soft, they go soft, you go hard) - and once you feel the spear you can rush in and keep the contact.
Sadly rushing in is also when the injury risk is huge, cause 2 moving objects are more ouchy then 1 and my kneecap is usually one of them.
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