Favourite Historical melee Weapons

>>1606895
The pen

*tips*

>>1606909

My rapier wit

*tips*

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>>1606895

Nice suit of armor you have there friend. It'd be a shame if someone were to electrocute you into unconsciousness and then rape you to death while you cry :^)

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I'm a sucker for bludgeoning weapons.

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>>1606915

Heh

*whips this out*

Nothing personnel, kid

*pulls trigger*

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>>1606941

Nice melee weapon friendo. Since you're pulling a fast one, you won't mind if I bring my pals?

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>>1606895
What exactly do you call a Prussian saber?

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Two-handed Swiss sabre.

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>>1607241
Apparently they were rather large.

Also, the correct spelling is sabre in both American and British English.

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>>1606895
I've always liked the mix of the nimble indian boxing style of fighting paired up with this blade. It is said that the blades were made thick so it wouldn't bend. Later they made it so thick that it had armor destroying capabillities.

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>>1606895
I'm not memeing I swear

>>1606895
Halberd.

>>1607338
>>1607408
>>1607428
Guns were a mistake.

>>1607451
guns are fucking based you should get a gun and be proficient with it. Very rewarding.

>>1607454
I know, I clutch mine firmly in hand and oil it up when I report in to my cuck shed for some firing practice.

>>1607454
Guns made all these awesome melee weapons obsolete. That's all I was saying.

>>1607477
>Guns made all these awesome melee weapons obsolete. That's all I was saying.

Not entirely, especially the Kukuri, you will never make small blades obsolete, CQB will always remain in combat.

http://www.artofmanliness.com/trunk/687/gorkha-soldier-saves-girl-from-rape-and-takes-on-40-train-robbers-with-only-a-khukuri/

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>>1606895
All time - Falchion

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>>1607477
>>1607451
>>1607338
There are multiple pictures of Katars with flintlocks attached to them. I doubt that these were extremely common, but I'm guessing a good number of people used them like this. Maybe a royalty only thing?

Who /shashka/ here?

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>>1606895
What's special about Prussian sabre? It looks to me like your standard compromise light cavalry sabre. Equals which you can find in Austrian, French and British arsenals.

See picture, a British 1821 pattern light cavalry sword.

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>>1608529
Here an Austrian antique.

Austrians are the ones who largely introduced sabres to Western Europe. Their Hussars were famous and their Uhlans also adopted by rest of Europe.

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>>1606895

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>>1606895
rapiers

>>1608538
>Austrians are the ones who largely introduced sabres to Western Europe. Their Hussars were famous and their Uhlans also adopted by rest of Europe.
This triggers the Slav(and the Hungarian).

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>>1606895
Have always had an affection for falcatas. Elegant and deadly.

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>>1608529
All grey. Sad. Morose. Truly the sabre of someone who would boil every meal he eats.
But fairly polished (and never used), adding insult to injury, exactly like someone who would put whipped cream on top of boiled meat. Have some Mediterranean cuisine, poor fellow.

>>1608562
Hungarians specifically were what I meant by Hussars. As how Central Asians introduced sabres to Eastern Europeans, Hungarian Hussars under Austrian army were the ones that introduced it to Western Europeans.

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>>1608529

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>>1608655
That's French, right?

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>>1607338
>>1608472
Another cool Indian weapon, a bagh nakh in the style of a gauntlet.

>ctrl +f halberd
>1 result

muh nig

>>1606895
The Oprichnik's whip for their main, melee weapon.

>see
>>>1608698

>>1606895
Roman Gladius

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>>1608663
It is.

>>1607428
Pretty near bottle cap opener on the other end.

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i love german gothic armor and the pointy longsword (probably type 18 style blade) this is my bullshit

>>1608565
good for lopping limbs with one hand, heads with two!
>get yours today!
>from your local dealer
>rexemperatorauthoriseddealersonlytermsandconditionsmayapply

>>1607428
God damn that's gorgeous. Clipping off limbs left right and centre

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>>1606941
ppsh, nothing personal kid...

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Its a polearm that also shoots bullets.

>>1607258
>>1607241
The wallace collection swiss sabre blade is 100cm long, with what looks like a 25cm grip, but it weight 1.62kg which is pretty hefty.
http://myarmoury.com/talk/viewtopic.php?t=17910

Just like a lot of weapon of that time, it doesn't look like it was widely used though.

POLEARMS

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Halberds

>>1606895
The PPsh 41 and STG 44 are my fav guns of WW2 also the mosin and M1 Garand are pretty sexy.

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>>1608796
The key's in the name, their usage was mostly restricted to Switzerland and southern Germany.

Also, shoutouts to all the short, one-handed, curved, broad bladed swords throughout history, worldwide.
There's probably a very good reason why there was an unbroken lineage of them from the medieval period to the cutlasses used on ships when quickly reloadable rifles were rendering melee weaponry obsolete.

>>1608697
It's almost as if Indians had been frightfully opposed to designing usable weaponry.

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>>1609142
A lot of these weapons are probably for show. I've only seen one instance of that Gauntlet type bagh-nakh. I just posted that one because it looked cool. Here's a regular one.

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>>1609149
And here's a drawing of the event that made this weapon famous, the founder of the Maratha Empire killing an enemy general with one.

>>1609158
Shivaji was such a badass. 10/10 historical waifu

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>>1606895
Archery is a very beautiful, aesthetic sport.

A shame that not many historical recreational archery circles exist where I live.

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>>1606895
Things made from Damascus steel are really cool; I love the patterns the metal produces.

>>1607241
Swiss sabre is actually a non-historical term for this weapon. Historically this weapon would have been called a "Schnepf" or "Schnepfenschnabel" (Snipe, Snipe's Beak).

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>>1606895
Here's a proper oversized bayonet.
I guess you'd better use it as a short sword.

>>1609184
i wish people would stop using the term damascus steel, neither pattern welding nor wootz steel were from there

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>>1609277
They're not oversized, the length was the norm for much of the 19th century to the early 1900s.

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>>1609775
That's the "joke". At least the japanese had a training for the unmounted bayonet right after their war with Russia, some people could have used that foresight.
The lenght kinda made even more sense for this one since the japanese were one of the few modern countries who still had a serious focus on hand-to-hand and melee weapon combat, even after WW1 and still very alive during WW2.

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>>1606895
unironically, japanese swords, specifically zatoichi

sabres and rapiers come shortly after but fail because I prefer simplicity over embellishment

>>1609964
It's called a shikomizue though...
Or shirasaya if it's a typical japanese blade which doesn't have the proper mountings yet.

>>1607258
whatever the fifth one from the left is is mine.

>>1606909
was the first i had in mind

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This thing tickles my fancy considerably.

>>1610106
>that hamon line
hnggg

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>>1610024
This is a Katzbalger.

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>>1608515
I must admit, they do have certain charm

>>1610432
>Katzbalger
Thank you.

big stick or a rock are both pretty good

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>>1610594
What if take sharp rock and tie to end of stick? Maybe me am able to hunt bear.

>>1608472
Yeah, from what I understand they were developed in the time guns became widespread, especially during british occupation but then deemed impractical since they're a terrible aim unless upclose and the redundancy of having stabbed someone and then shooting them.

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>>1610536
it was the melee weapon of the landsknechts, name literally means "cat skinner"

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>this triggers swordfags

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The mace is pretty neat for all the cowards hiding in their shiny metal suits.

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>>1609745

I wish autists would stop complaining abbot Damascus steel, which is a widely accepted term and perfectly accurate.

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>>1606895
>Favourite Historical melee Weapons

Gladius.

>>1611091
why not both? #allweaponsmatter

I like most one-handed Renaissance and modern era swords: rapiers, sideswords, schiavonas, backswords, sabers... One-handed swords with a bit of extra hand-protection, at least compared to a simple cruciform hilt. I tend to find two-handed fighting styles unstylish for som reason. Though the really large two-handed swords (Zweihänder, Nodachi) have a certain appeal, or at least they look cool to pose with.

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>>1606895

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>>1606950
Uh, you don't get to bring friends

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>>1606895

>>1611750
>perfectly accurate
again, it isn't