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Do you know anything about this rapier? http://www.hollywoodcombatcenter.com/images/coldsteel_023.jpg http://www.kultofathena.com/images/CS88CHR_l.jpg http://www.kultofathena.com/images/CS88CHR_2_l.jpg http://www.kultofathena.com/images/CS88CHR_3_l.jpg http://www.kultofathena.com/images/CS88CHR_5_l....

A dagger provides a useful defense against a single opponent, or maybe a few, but it has a smaller margin for error than a buckler and becomes a lot less useful in mass combat. Bucklers are well suited to the battlefield and were commonly used. The Spanish were known to use sword and buckler men to...

From film,histoeical picture,I can hardly see the infantry ever used both sword and dagger[Right hand uses with sword,left hand uses with dagger] in the battle field in the 16th century to 17th century?Why? Wasn't there no enough room to wave both sword and dagger in the battle field in the 16th cen...

I wannt to buy a long sword or a bastard sword and a madieval arming sword,In the area that I live,only coldsteel and HANWEI sword can be bought. My Requirements are the appearance,the weight,the balance between blade and hilt,martirial should be as alike as real swords as much as poissible. Which o...

I read George SIlver's passage about defense,he said that the rapier or rapier and dagger has no advantages to against sword and buckler.But in this passage http://www.thearma.org/essays/SwordandBucklerP4.htm http://www.thearma.org/essays/SwordandBucklerP3.htm It is said that rapier had ever supres...

I read George SIlver's passage about defense,he said that the rapier or rapier and dagger has no advantages to against sword and buckler.But in this passage http://www.thearma.org/essays/SwordandBucklerP4.htm http://www.thearma.org/essays/SwordandBucklerP3.htm It is said that rapier had ever supress...

I have some questions about the scottish basket hilt broadsword and scottish claymore. First for the scottish basket hilt broadsword. Is it belong to the renaissance cut and thrust sword[side sword]? Compare with other renaissance cut and thrust sword,how is the sharpness? If I used a scottish baske...

To defeat the rapier and rapier with dagger,It is good to choose side sword and side sword with dagger?


I do not know if it would be take advantage to against rapier?What is your idea?

THANKS A LOT

I heard some one discribed that side sword[cut and thrust sowrd] had two sorts of.One kind is mainly for thrusting,they had narrow and thick blades, another is mainly for cutting,they had wide blades.

Is that true????

If infantries used rapier and dagger in the war or battle field,hou would the results be when against other one handed swords or two handed swords during 1500-1700? But these all depended Under the premise of the infantries were all very good at the rapiers and daggers.

Will it be nealy useless?

but I remembered that the blade of some two hand swords are also as long as rapier?

One of the techniques that the Portuguese warriors employed against their enemies who held the Moorish bow was just more than unusual. They knew that the Moorish bow would be very effective within the range from 50 meters to 400 meters. So when 40 Portuguese soldiers disembarked to face a first row ...

How is the effecitve and results if a infatry carried a rapier or a rapier with main gauche to battle field to against other wider blade swords and cold armes during the age 1500-1700? If i can use a rapier very well,can it take it to war as a major cold armes? IF i can use a rapier with main gauche...