why does michonne's sword not break?
doubt it would last a week, let alone 3 years
No one on the show would last a week, yet alone 3 years
>>71985532
Samurai steel, folded over a thousand times.
>>71985700
Glorious nipple steel
I always thought swords like that were largely bleeding weapons. Like you stab and then pull it along some small opening and you bleed the fucker out.
I don't think they are really meant to cut bones. Especially right through skulls.
>>71985700
>>71985532
Back in the ye olde japan good blade was tested in "corpse cutting" when they made this illegal, they phased into wet tatami rolls with inch thick wooden stick in the middle.
>>71985803
Imagine how much pussy this dude gets
>>71985532
I don't know much about swords, but why do you think it would break? Doesn't she keep good maintenance? Also, is she always cutting straight through bone?
>>71985532
Same reason Morgan can ninja-wreck people with a wooden fucking stick
The show is based on a comic book
>>71985532
Katana was actually made to cut through unarmored peasants, but without the proper treatment, blacksmith, etc it will turn into shit in no time.
A mace would be a better weapon in that situation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iH_oLEllyvg
>Break
Katanas actually bend, they have soft cores, so the edge will break but the rest of the blade will bend
>>71985849
kek
>>71985532
dumbass, they fold the japanese steel like 10,000 times. it makes it incredibly durable, and wickedly sharp with little upkeep.
>>71985803
That's a big sword.
>>71986113
>>71985532
Memes aside a good, real Katana is virtually indestructible. No, I'm not talking about the """real""" Katans you gaijin get from you western swordmakers.
You'd know if you ever held one.
I just hate it when you plebs have the stomach to talk about cultures and techniques you have knowledge of whatsoever.
A real Katan doesn't break, trust me I got one which has been folded over 6750 times and hardened in blood, yes literally blood.
>>71986370
>trust me I got one which has been folded over 6750 times and hardened in blood, yes literally blood.
>>71986447
original commentaro
>>71985532
My my, how can one be so ill informed?
Japanese steel, specifically katana's, are the finest man made weapons ever invented.
They are folded over a million times by an expert craftsman, something you gaijin can't understand.
>>71985849
all of it
>>71985532
Swords don't break easily. Especially katanas that despite memes are actually quite thick and heavy swords.
>>71986370
I have a real katana and it shattered. Tried to do an Iaido on a tree
>>71985532
You're seriously underestimating how durable swords are; if you don't hit anything that could chip the blade pretty much the only thing that will happen is that it will dull over time.
>>71985803
>katana
>muh weak katana
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8qQZLtIuiA
Anti-weebs are even dumber than weebs.
>>71986447
jokes on you, I want my mother to die in her sleep....shit
>>71986644
Lol, yeah ok.
My Sensei (whom i got my katana from) used to tell me stories of how his ancestors sliced through steel like butter, going straight through the western infidels blades.
I recommend "The art of the Blade", and "the philosophy of the knife". Really makes you think and teaches you a lot about the ancient "Nippon" steel.
It's rumored that not even diamonds could cut the Katanas of old, so they had to be ingraved wit ha smaller Katana.
>>71985700
It wouldn't break that easily, but it also wouldn't cut through the 50th zombie like butter like it does.
>>71985532
The real question is how can she have been swinging that thing for over three years and still look like she's chopping wood.
>>71986824
Epic troll.
>>71986824
Mr.Seagal?
>>71986835
They tested that with the katana fixed in place and the arming sword being swung, for balance, and the fucking katana snapped in two.
They're sharper than (most) European swords but the trade off is they're pretty fragile weapons.
>>71986835
>welt der wunder
Do fags posting this shit even know what they are posting?
>>71985566
People actually know how to survive outside the basement anon
I know this is a bait thread, but rarely people consider that it's a modern weapon based on a medieval design. I'm pretty sure most swords in general made today are made with high-quality steel, in shops with machines, rather than by hand.
>>71986759
>cold steel
>>71986934
Complete bullshit. That shit is from pseudo science german program that makes Discovery channel shit seems credible in comparison. Same episode also "proved" that superior german swords shit over everything on the planet.
They just used a 3x heavier sword. No shit katana broke.
In reality katanas were thicker and heavier than european swords of the same size. All that talk about it's lightness and agility is complete bullshit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsYbRom3h7U
>>71986759
Try cutting corpses for 3 years lets see how the katana (or any blade) ends
>>71985532
Swrods like that would not brreak for cutting bones.
But they would become dull as fuck after all that cutting.
In a realistic scenario, carrying a cheap machete would be the same as carrying that sword, despise the fact that is easier to find and fix the blade of the machete.
>>71987248
Dull. But you just sharpen it. No, it's not going to break.
>>71986835
LOL. KATANAFAGS BTFO
>>71987276
Machete also has shit reach. And you want all the reach you can get while fighting fucking zombies.
>>71987342
>modern german replica vs two times heavier modern german replica
Truly BTFO.
>>71987371
True, but is this a good trade? Reach over ease of maintenance?
I dont know.
>>71987468
You can sharpen a katana just like anything else.
>>71986824
>It's rumored that not even diamonds could cut the Katanas of old, so they had to be ingraved wit ha smaller Katana.
kek, nice bait.
>>71985803
What were these big ass swords even used for? Horseback?
>>71986993
Yea but not most of the fucking idiots they choose to highlight.
>>71987532
With time you'll lose metal with time, and then you need a forge and more materials. And I fucking doubt Michone knows how to maintain a katana
>>71985801
No swords were designed to cut bone really. An ax does the job so much easier.
>>71987686
I am just saying it seems like a katana would be the worst weapon against Zombies.
Is it just me or,was 156 the best issue to date?
>>71986824
Ken-san is that you?
>>71985532
niggas defy logic
>>71987828
Must be some powahful niggatry at work.
>>71987322
>No, it's not going to break.
>>71987077
>comparing katanas with decorative officer swords
I guess both were more of an status symbol, but I'd rather take an actual two-hander
>>71985803
That's from Dark Souls
>Washing Pole
>>71987740
it was reddit and memes
>>71987736
Depends really on what needs to be done to kill a zombie. A katana is actually very good at cutting into an unarmored target and would have enough force to severe a spine(at the neck) or possibly cut through the skull but you would have to constantly maintain, sharpen and eventually reforge it. A mace, hammer, club, would all be better choices.
Swords were designed to strike with accuracy to parts of a persons body and to kill them pretty quickly. You want to put him out of the fight. Bleeding an opponent out is not a good strategy because if he knows he will die anyway he is going to fight that much harder to make sure he takes you with him.
Best anti-zombie tactic would be pretty much Roman infantry tactics (if we assume there's no guns anymore).
Basically spear+shield to impale them and protect yourself, and gladius or machete to cut off the head.
>>71988280
Wrong.
The cranium ( the only place you should go to kill the zombies) is very hard and not as easy to puncture with a spear.
Its both small, its moving and you have the risk of getting your spear stuck in the hole when trying to pull back from his head to charge at another zombie.
>>71988439
I assumed he meant as in pinning them in some way so that you could safely approach and finish them off.
>>71987613
It's the nip version of a zweihander, mostly used as an anti calvary weapon
>>71988439
>is very hard and not as easy to puncture with a spear.
it would be in this stupid universe
they used bits of wood to kill zombies when they escaped from the train car
>your spear stuck in the hole
only if you're dumb and stab to the socket, which you aren't supposed to do anyway
>>71988439
>The cranium ( the only place you should go to kill the zombies) is very hard and not as easy to puncture with a spear.
No, the spear would be to keep them at distance, not to actually kill them. If you had a bunch of people with spears and shields, you could simply make a shield wall, impale the zombies, and then go around and finish them off with machetes.
>>71987740
Nah 100 is still the best
>>71988486
>which you aren't supposed to do anyway
You get to reach the brain somehow.
>>71988508
My bad. I musunderstood.
>>71985803
>*teleports behind you
>>71988582
if you're going to apply realism then you wouldn't stab the front of the brain
you'd stab the brainstem, the rest of the brain wouldn't do anything for a zombie
This is a pretty common thing in fiction, weapons last way longer than they would.
Even guns have a maximum number of rounds you can fire before all sorts of shit starts to wear down like the barrel.
>>71988034
>Washing Pole
This is from Musasi biography actually.
>>71987276
I always wonder why you never see people in zombie movies/shows using polearms; I'm pretty sure that the bardiche is empirically the best anti-zombie weapon ever created.
>>71985803
>wrists too weak to hold sword
At least he can still tip his fedora.
>>71985801
They're for slashing and stabbing. They don't have the weight to be driven down through bone.
>>71985532
Why haven't the zombies completely decomposed?
>>71986370
Katanas are folded over so many times because Japanese iron is shit.
>>71988827
Oh interdasting. I only know it from the bideo gam because I'm a pleb obviously
>>71986889
Especially when it's been established in the show that skulls are so weak that they can be smashed by stomping. She should be stabbing them in the head. It's much more efficient.
>>71987656
Come on, friend. We're talking about a television show in which people have infinite ammo until the plot demands that they run low. Michionne doesn't need to know how to maintain a katana just like the rest of the crew don't need to know how to make their own bullets.
>>71985996
>so the edge will break
so it'll break and become a shitty lightweight club
>>71988043
Yeah you would know wouldn't you faggot
>>71988568
100 is definitely a close second.
>>71986370
>>71986824
Almost fell for it, faggot.
>>71986206
sure is reddit in here
>>71987656
Over 3 years you won't lose enough to even notice.
>>71989232
Probably because a weapon with shorter reach allows the director to frame the character's face and the weapon hitting it's target in the same shot easier. Same reason why people in movies always get really close and get in a pushing match with swords.
>>71987992
Those are all weapons used in war, not decorative swords.
>>71987879
Said like a true expert who never even held a real sword in their life.
In case you don't know swords are flexible. They are very hard to actually break.
>>71987686
Curved blades can cut human bones perfectly fine. Cows and pigs too. They just get dull after few times.
>>71985532
I've always been under the impression that guns and swords are both terrible zombie weapons. Blunt instruments are where it's at.
>>71990623
Dude, my uncle is a butcher, believe me, cutting tools need to be shapened a lot, and in less than 3 years you'll be needing one because your once katana is now a rapier
>>71989614
more or less, Japanese iron ore was shit, it came with a lot of impurities and in form of sand. They came up with the folding technique to turn that shit into a pretty decent steel.
>>71989947
>Lightweight
Katanas weight between 1kg and 1.3kgs, they were heavier than the European arming swords, becasue, after all, katanas are 2hd cleavers
>>71985532
Katanas were last widely used in WW2 where there were hundreds of accounts of Japanese officers using them to slice through modern steel guns and artillery pieces or other kinds of heavy equipment. You should really pick up a history book.
>>71991199
That was debunked, nowadays everybody knows that US artillery and tanks were made out of wood and not steel
>>71991199
>Katanas were last widely used in WW2 where there were hundreds of accounts of Japanese officers using them to slice through modern steel guns and artillery pieces or other kinds of heavy equipment. You should really pick up a history book.
You don't want mythbusters do you?
Those are all FAKE stories.
