Arms 'n Armor

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>>52309111

>>52309671
And that does it for me.

>>52309658
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>>52309559
Neat

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>>52309702
Whoops, forgot one

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Lurking, thanks fellows

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>>52310224
De nada

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>>52309702
Found another sword

>>52310524
Parrying shield?

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>>52310793
Yeah, I had the same reaction when I found it. I wanna say it was held something like this in duels or something. Too lazy to look up fighting styles of the Solomon Islands.

>>52310885
Much bigger than I had thought. I was thinking it was something like a parrying dagger.

>>52310191
I'm in love.

Sir, I need your finest maces.

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>>52314598

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>>52314812
See >>52310098
as well

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>>52314839

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>>52314598

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>>52314598

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>>52314911
HOW CAN ELVES EVEN COMPETE

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>>52314598

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Rate it.

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>>52314939
They can't.

>>52314598
>>52315048

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>>52315050
Nigger/10

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>>52315050

>>52309428
ugh. look at the steel. you can tell it's just been sloppily chopped out of a slab by some machine and the leather on the handle is poorly fitted, it's coming off already at the top. What a piece of shit.

>>52315140
>>52314839
>>52310778
>>52309178


Do they just slap that hilt on fucking anything?

>>52309873
Stormbringer?

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>>52315324
I'd say pretty much, yeah.

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>>52314598
It's in no way even slightly practical for anyone of human strength but I've always liked massively fuckhuge maces.

>>52311009
It's a fucking rake

>>52315613
>X-BAWKS HUUUUUUOOGE

>>52315751
It's not so bad when you consider humans in SoulCalibur-land can wield a full-size cavalry lance like a fucking bo-staff.

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>>52315725
It fucking works

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I know they're not technically weapons, but Japanese woodworking tools are my A E S T H E T I C

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>>52315050
[Angry Seal Noises]

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Haven't seen an A&A thread in forever

>>52315725
likely a civilian made weapon so they had SOMETHING to use in case of invasion or rebellion

>>52315832
At that point, couldn't you have just had all those guys bumrush the samurai and tackle him to the ground?

>>52317021
They don't wanna get too close and risk touching their topknots to the topknot of a scoundrel. This would break the Bushido code (and be pretty gay)

>>52316932
The tsukubo, as well as >>52310942
and >>52310927,
were used by police to both entangle clothes (with the little spikes), and restrict the joints (with the crooks and leverage factor)

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>>52310173
As a halberd(and other less awesome polearms)fag, to the point of actually having spent real money on halberd related studies to increase my halberd knowledge to the point that with a bit of work I could accurately label all those pics of halberds, well, predictable commentary involving boners goes here following all that halberd-posting.

Halberds.

>>52317282
I wish Dark Souls allowed you to hold halberds like that.

>>52309223
>>52309238
That is some baller shit

>>52310224
unf Katzbalgers are so fuckin perf

>>52317021
Why risk having some of your men injured when there is no need to rush the whole affair? The police has all the time they want.
As Vauban said, it's better to waste powder than shed blood.

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If this sword was a woman, I would marry her

>>52322326
no hilt/10

>>52322334
But it does have a hilt
Its that part thats not sharp where your hand goes

>>52322353
yeah maybe if you have tiny baby hands

>>52322361
>yourself will never kill yourself while wielding yourself

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>>52316645

>>52322334
You mean crossguard?

>>52322466
That too. But mostly the tiny hilt. Why do so many old swords have those absolutely baby-size handles? Like >>52316541
>>52309576
>>52309354
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>>52309162
>>52309144
>>52309118


Is it an Indian/Arabic thing or what?

>>52322506
iirc, it's to force a certain type of cut and to ensure a certain type of grip that is deemed correct.
Early "viking-era swords" had very tiny grip as well (8cm or so).

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>>52322506
That's a dagger.

>But mostly the tiny hilt.
Sure bub.

>>52322506
Small hilts on cutting swords serve two purposes.
One, it forces the hand to keep a straight angle with the blade (hammer grip) by restricting hand movement, to make sure you cut correctly, specially with curved blades. Second, it makes them more convenient to carry around because you don't have a 20cm long metal bar sticking out of your waist and getting in your way.

It's a mainstay of indian and arabic swords because they are mostly curved, cut oriented blades, but many european ancient and early medieval swords were also like that. As the middle ages progress and thrusting becomes more necessary, grips get longer to allow handshake grips for better thrusting.

>>52322506
The sword that started this tanget is Russian, was made famous by the Cossacks, and originated in the northern Caucasus

>>52322506
A lot of swords designed to be used primarily with shields tend to lack crossroads because they can get in the way during combat

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>>52309111
>>52309413
Somebody said sword porn?

>>52323764
what it needs is the smoke animated and made into a webm with porn music underneath it

>>52311009
>>52315725
>>52316932
There's a story about a samurai using a giant rake (O-kumade) during the battle of sekigahara, mainly to unhorse enemy samurai and pin them down while his retainers would stab the guy to death. He and his party killed a dozen horsemen or so that way.

>>52315832
Is that a motherfucking attack ladder?

>>52324604
It's just ladders to prevent someone from fleeing. Most low-level cops in Edo Japan were armed with retention devices and staves while the samurai officers were the one with blades and truncheons.

>>52324604
They were used to restrain unruly samurai by police officers in Edo.
The concept seems silly, but is rather simple; surround the guy and move forward until he's trapped between them, which limits or mitigated his ability to use his sword.

Then your other guys can simply disarm him or stab him while he's all tied up.

>>52315832
>>52324604
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>>52324831
Anything works when you use 20 people to restrain/defeat one person. Hell, you could have them all just throw rocks at him caveman style and that would probably solve the problem too.

>>52326880
>that would probably solve the problem too.
No that wouldn't, the goal is to take him alive and with minimal injuries if possible. He may be unruly, but he is still a samurai. You bet that when they went against non-samurai, they wouldn't use all that shit. It would be with blades out.

>>52327166
>but he is still a samurai.

Samurai that go against and insult their lord by running around committing crimes in their cities are no samurai.

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>>52327249

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>>52327187
Well unfortunately, class society doesn't work like that... Besides, the samurai may just have been drunk or some stupid shit like that.

Do you think that unruly sons of the nobility were shot on sight in Europe as well...? Well the problem is that they weren't (in countries where Richelieu wasn't here anyway).

>>52309111
That is a handsome blade.

>>52309223
>>52309238
Splendid craftsmanship.

>>52309252
>>52314812
>>52314911
There's something to be said about the neat, fashionable--even elegant--simplicity of bludgeoning someone to death with a tool designed for that very purpose.

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>>52309393
The Germans never fail to impress with their crafting abilities, nor the Italians in this regard.

>>52309465
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>>52309506
I say, I'd invade Poland too with the intent of procuring for myself one of these.

>>52310298
Crude, but versatile in the ways of savagery. I like it.

>>52322394
Finery.

>>52327228
Heavy finery.

>>52327357
And more German masterwork.

Thanks for sharing, lads.

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>>52309111

>>52327493
I love how snazzy wheellocks look, even if they were too complicated to mass produce.

>>52327440
In fact they do.

They are literally servants and representatives of their lord. It's not at like feudal class society in europe where it was more of a contract where one offered up something in exchange for something else.

Unless the lord outright told them to commit some sort of crime, the fact that they are representing their lord in such a fashion is an insult to the lord that death would be too good for them.

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>>52327493

>>52327508
That sword reminds me of some American amphetamine/methamphetamine dealer on the deepweb that would showcase his goods on top of the American and Israeli flag, surrounded by 1911 pistols.

The ads he made specifically said "If you don't support the USA and Israel, you don't get any drugs you fucking commie!".

Bit weird drugs dealer if you ask me.

>>52327538
In theory you are right. In practice... hahahahahahah.

In medieval Europe it was common for criminal organisations to be helmed by a nobleman, typically a nobleman from a large family - 1st son gains the lands, 2nd son goes into the clergy, 3rd son becomes a renowned mercenary, 4th son starts a thieves gang, that kind of idea.

>>52327538
You're absolutely right about how Samurai were supposed to act. That said they still could get away with a lot of things as long as it didn't get back to the lord. Obviously a scenario like >>52315832 is way too late and that dude is fucked and his only way of mitigating the situation is literally suicide.

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>>52327620

>>52327538
Exactly. Knights and the various tiers of nobility in medieval Europe all had their own rights and privileges and if they were giant assholes it didn't really reflect poorly on the local Baron/Earl/Duke/King,etc.

Samurai could only dream of such a situation.

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>>52327879

Image limit reached :(

>>52322768
european longsword masterace m8
do you even balance your weapon m8?
do you even grab your sword with 2 hands to strike stronk m8?

>>52327669
>In medieval Europe it was common for criminal organisations to be

Usually it was that they'd just know a couple of guys in a bunch of castles and hide in those whenever there'd be trouble.
The local lord wouldn't give enough fuck as long as the robbery in question happened in another lord's fief.

Similar stuff happens in Chinese stories - a bunch of pirates pay a local magistrate for the right to transport people along established routes under his flag. They then occasionally kill and rob passengers and dump the bodies in the water. Seeing how there are no survivors, they're sailing under the local strongman's flag AND nobody can tell for sure where exactly those travellers disappeared, nobody can touch them. The local strongman (who basically also is the only judge in the region) doesn't pry as long as he gets the tithe they owe him.

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>>52328273
next thread

>>52327736
>>52327538
>his only way of mitigating the situation is literally suicide.
And that's why you want to capture him alive. So that he is forced to kys afterwards.

>>52328391
Except that he still had to ask for permission to commit sudoku from his lord. His lord did not have to grant him permission to kill himself. If he wanted him executed or if he was lawfully murdered in the commission of a crime, that was simply how it went down.

>>52328391
What does that have to do with throwing rocks at him? You think that can't knock a dude out or simply incapacitate him in a fashion where they can't grapple and disarm him?

Stoning can kill people, but it's all a matter of degrees.

>>52315050
I always wondered how practical a gaffi sick would be in a fight.

>>52328477
I can totally see the Edo era police station with rocks into boxes:
>box A is rocks to kill people
>box B is slightly smaller rocks to hopefully not kill people with (to be thrown with the correct angulation and degrees to maximize not killing).

>>52328810
For some reason this amuses me greatly.

>>52328391
>>52328477
>>52328810
Reminder that japanese cities had laws forbidding rock-throwing within city limits. Rock throwing battles used to be a major civil disturbance/entertainment during the Warring States period that had to be kept in check somehow.

Apparently duels in rennaissance Rome started with the two opponents slinging stones at each other, or at least that's what I read in the Il Meo Patacca.

>>52330146
>laws forbidding rock-throwing within city limits

Clearly they were enlightened all about how dangerous caveman era tech was.

>>52327629

You have to admit, the USA has gone out of its way to make drug dealing as lucrative as possible.

>>52309223
There is no fuck you, like a "I will make a sheath out of your corpse" fuck you.