04-19-2002, 11:29 AM | #41 |
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About Eowyn, Does anyone know what her alias Dernhelm means? She was kown as dernhelm because of her exclaimation when she realized that the rider's headgear was heavy and obscured her sight. 'Dern Helm" Culled from Entmoot From Kirinski 57 and Wayfarer. |
04-19-2002, 11:36 AM | #42 |
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If it's a zulu Shortspear it's got a good 3 feet of blade.
Otherwise it's just a plain old spear with a short staff. Which means you should use a sheild with it. Now if you want to know about something that takes a lot of maintainance, shields are often throwaway items. Even cross grained and rimmed with metal, they seldom last more than one battle.
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04-19-2002, 12:40 PM | #43 |
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I must not have been thinking about the right thing then. I wouldn't use a pole-arm with a three foot blade on it. one foot iks plenty in my opinion. Even with the shorter polearms, I use them two handed kind of like a cross between staff fighting and normal pole-arm fighting. Sometimes I will use a shield. Other times I don't want one becasue it slows me down. I guess ti depends on the openent. In a one on one fight, I usually wouldn't. In a bigger battle, I would problably want one. I never become attatched to anything that I use as a shield. It usually breaks or gets really beaten up.
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04-20-2002, 02:46 AM | #44 |
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Well now, the new aluminum ones are really handy, but not quite period you know...
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04-20-2002, 12:35 PM | #45 |
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Give me a two or three foot, leaf bladed, sharp edged longbsword and I'll be quite happy, thank you. I have a design which I'm looking to have made someday.
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04-20-2002, 06:36 PM | #46 |
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I know most of my favorites aren't period weapons. If I needed a period weapon to fight with, I would be happy with a jo staff.
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04-20-2002, 10:32 PM | #47 |
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Does anyone else make blades or any other weapon? It really cuts down the cost of owning a good trustworthy blade. I myself would prefer a tanto style 9-12 inch blade with a Ray skin and cord-wrapped grip in a fight. Also give me a brace of throwing knives.
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04-20-2002, 11:10 PM | #48 |
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NAr- our master smith does the weapons, I just smoosh me fingers riveting armor.
And If I never see another peice of chainmail it will be too soon. Bugger turning links and bugger hammering them.
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04-24-2002, 05:01 PM | #49 |
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About Eowyn, Does anyone know what her alias Dernhelm means? She was kown as dernhelm because of her exclaimation when she realized that the rider's headgear was heavy and obscured her sight. 'Dern Helm" Culled from Entmoot From Kirinski 57 and Wayfarer. |