How do you sword?
http://imgur.com/gallery/lx3rD
Charging centaurs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vP2XqzUorU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFDcoX7s6rE
Or less flattering; indecisively.
Anyway, Chinese was it? I really wish there'd be more of them showing up at the local arms auctions so I could molest them. The few dao I've gotten my hands on so far have all been very hefty pieces, with the centre of balance way out. This particular one being the most extreme I've encountered so far, with the CoM being almost exactly in the middle (pommel to tip, not middle of the blade).
I've yet to run into a jian which wasn't obvious tourist bait or sized like a not very large dagger, so no personal experience there, but the notions I've gotten from forum.grtc.org is that things are somewhat similar for them as well.
So much (relatively) for the light, nimble Kung Fu weapon. (Let's ignore the sword-shaped ribbons sued in modern days rhythmic gymnastics wushu.) In a way it's kinda like the deal with the katana I guess. And aren't scimitars [SIC!] usually portrayed as light slashing things too? Seems like a running theme with oriental weapons. Perhaps simply the result of the old "20lbs knightly sword" myth? Let imagination run off to one side, and all of reality will suddenly appear as if sitting on the other.
>>47245822
How far was the CoP from the point? That thing doesn't look very long.
>>47245868
Didn't check. As for size it was a decent sized one, and I'm pretty sure you could get both hands on the grip without it being too crowded, so maybe 85-90 cm total?
>>47245439
>Swords
Jokes on you, knife master race coming throughAnd Chinese jians give me a hard-on with their shape and combat application
>tfw you can never like swords due to fedora faggots hijacking them
>>47245822
Nope. Dao were mostly used as soldier weapons, while jian fell to the dueling side with time. Chinese scimitars are heavy and use way more brutal techniques than straight swords.
>>47246669
Fedora faggots tend more to pole weapons, anyway.
>>47247201
Whatever it takes to protect m'lady from the scourge of chads.
>>47247201
My experience is they're more into swords. Polearms are too practical for their taste.
>>47247201
>>47247467
Fedora faggots aren't into real weapons. They've are into imaginative versions of them.
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>>47247201
The difference between a poser neckbeard and someone who actually knows what they're doing is that the latter doesn't constantly pose and show off with their weapon.
You can tell a swordsman by their poise, footwork and most importantly, if their hands are calloused. You can tell a poser by the amount of times he mentions he has a sword, how many photos he has of him with a sword and if he constantly talks about how he could kill a man... With his sword.
>>47247201
You can't teleport behind people with a polearm, you need a katana made of 100% nippon steel, fucking b-b-baka!
>>47248737
>What is yari
>What is naginata
Pleb detected
>>47249060
>likes things that look like dicks
It's as if you don't want to be hetero
Bronze age best age.
>>47247420
>>47247467
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>>47248737
>make an off-the-hand remark on a semi-specific thread to get some weight off my chest and fuck off for two hours
>storm of (you)s
Oh shit, I'm sorry.
I made that post because I was being fed up by the anti-weeb faggots on /tg/ who get their panties in a twist the moment someone fucking mentions Japan. I then channeled that into a jab combining how /tg/ is mostly contrarian neckbeards and how /tg/'s favorite weapon seems to be the almighty halberd, and called it a day.
Sorry if that made me look like an idiot. Have my favorite sword to keep it on topic.
>>47248737
Nothing personel, kid.
>>47245822
>I've yet to run into a jian which wasn't obvious tourist bait or sized like a not very large dagger, so no personal experience there, but the notions I've gotten from forum.grtc.org is that things are somewhat similar for them as well.
No way.
My sifu's jian has a CoM 2" from the guard. If I recall correctly, 4.5" is more typical.
I've seen dao with lively balance too, though much rarer aside from wushu weapons. Basically they only exist as custom one-ofs.
The main problem with Chinese swords is Chinese manufacturing. For every good blade built by someone with martial knowledge, there are probably several million bad copies which are superficially the same shape but were built without insight.
>>47249417
its beautiful. im putting that in a campaign
>>47250826
You could put it on your wall. Only costs some 200 bucks.
>>47245588
I feel like centaurs with bows aren't optimal because bows depend on your arm/shoulder/torso strength so they wouldn't get any advantage from their increased mass and horse muscles. But imagine a centaur using a sling or atlatl. Those get their power from the inertia of you flinging your whole body behind the swing. Imagine a centaur with a big sling, running and then short stopping into a pivot and letting fly a bigass sling bullet with all it's inertia behind it. Regular humans using slings could already chuck small bullets like a full mile, I bet a centaur could send a fist sized stone even farther.
>>47245439
My rogue characters normally carry a short sword like
http://www.medievalcollectibles.com/images/PRODUCT/large/ZS-926828_2_.png
It's stabby, cutty and short enough to crawl around with. In addition I'll normally get them armed with a machete.
My fighters tend to have sabres and yatagans, general cutty swords for fighting from horseback.
>>47251053
>running and then short stopping into a pivot
Which ain't gonna work the way you'd hope, since he's got most of a horse jutting out of where his ass should have been.
>Regular humans using slings could already chuck small bullets like a full mile
http://slinging.org/index.php?page=sling-ranges
The absolute record there, using a lead projectile for best effect, ain't a third of your mile, and few get past 250m.
http://www.academia.edu/176644/New_Experimental_Data_on_the_Distance_of_Sling_Projectiles_2009_
Up to 500m in accounts, furthest in the experiment was 130m.
>>47251016
>Only costs some 200 bucks.
A bit more, 300GBP for the blade alone, 400GBP hilted, presumably without the decorative carvings seen there.
http://www.bronze-age-swords.com/British_and_European.htm
I'll take a partisan, and a longsword as a backup. I'll take all the reach advantage I can get.
how come modern popes don't have awesome swords?
