real combat w/ arms and armor - Page 3

afro-elf · 04-19-2002, 11:29 AM

this site may interest you

http://www.aemma.org/

Blackheart · 04-19-2002, 11:36 AM

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.

Twilight · 04-19-2002, 12:40 PM

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.

Blackheart · 04-20-2002, 02:46 AM

Well now, the new aluminum ones are really handy, but not quite period you know...

Wayfarer · 04-20-2002, 12:35 PM

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.

Twilight · 04-20-2002, 06:36 PM

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.

spidersbane · 04-20-2002, 10:32 PM

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.

Blackheart · 04-20-2002, 11:10 PM

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.

afro-elf · 04-24-2002, 05:01 PM

here is another great site

http://www.swordforum.com/sfu/

04-19-2002, 11:29 AM	#41
afro-elf Hoplite Nomad Join Date: Sep 2001 Posts: 3,931	this site may interest you http://www.aemma.org/ __________________ 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
Blackheart Elf Lord Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Darkness Posts: 1,211	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. __________________ I have harnessed the shadows that stride from world to world to sow death and madness... Queer haow a cravin' gits a holt on ye -- As ye love the Almighty, young man, don't tell nobody, but I swar ter Gawd thet picter begun ta make me hungry fer victuals I couldn't raise nor buy -- here, set still, what's ailin' ye? ...

04-19-2002, 12:40 PM	#43
Twilight Elven Warrior Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Wilmore, KY Posts: 269	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. __________________ Sometimes I wonder how many monkeys with typewritters it would take to reproduce what I just wrote.

04-20-2002, 02:46 AM	#44
Blackheart Elf Lord Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Darkness Posts: 1,211	Well now, the new aluminum ones are really handy, but not quite period you know... __________________ I have harnessed the shadows that stride from world to world to sow death and madness... Queer haow a cravin' gits a holt on ye -- As ye love the Almighty, young man, don't tell nobody, but I swar ter Gawd thet picter begun ta make me hungry fer victuals I couldn't raise nor buy -- here, set still, what's ailin' ye? ...

04-20-2002, 12:35 PM	#45
Wayfarer The Insufferable Join Date: Aug 2001 Posts: 3,333	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. __________________ Disgraced he may be, yet is not dethroned, and keeps the rags of lordship once he owned

04-20-2002, 06:36 PM	#46
Twilight Elven Warrior Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Wilmore, KY Posts: 269	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. __________________ Sometimes I wonder how many monkeys with typewritters it would take to reproduce what I just wrote.

04-20-2002, 10:32 PM	#47
spidersbane Hobbit Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: The Shire Posts: 42	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. __________________ For the less even as for the greater there is some deed that he may accomplish but once only; and in that deed his heart shall rest. — Feanor, from the Quenta Silmarillion. "Never give a sword to a man who can't dance" (Celtic Proverb) "Those who live by the sword get shot by those who don't."

04-20-2002, 11:10 PM	#48
Blackheart Elf Lord Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Darkness Posts: 1,211	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. __________________ I have harnessed the shadows that stride from world to world to sow death and madness... Queer haow a cravin' gits a holt on ye -- As ye love the Almighty, young man, don't tell nobody, but I swar ter Gawd thet picter begun ta make me hungry fer victuals I couldn't raise nor buy -- here, set still, what's ailin' ye? ...

04-24-2002, 05:01 PM	#49
afro-elf Hoplite Nomad Join Date: Sep 2001 Posts: 3,931	here is another great site http://www.swordforum.com/sfu/ __________________ 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.