by Forkbeard » Sun Jan 16, 2011 3:08 pm
You knwo I'm a bladed weapon guy.
Diego also gave me a sweet barrel glaive. So I've tried both.
Honsetly, except for a small percentage of fighters I get to see at large events, I do not like fighting with a glaive. It's too easy to just kill the **** out of everyone. The round glaive only make this worse. With the ability to swing in any direction without thoughtto edge control, I start feeling like I'm just beating up children. This may sound like baravado, but it's the way I feel.
For red swords, I like them to be SWORD shaped. There is just something undenighably satisfying in two handed sword fighting for me. I only make my handles oblong, so they FEEL like a sword handle. I fight very, very agressivly, using intimadation along with wicked ambidexterous skills to overwhelm people.
I don't feel that a red quicktube or even a heavy red tube-sword is a good representation of a real weapon. It is not an axe or mace, nor a hammer. It is a large stick. If it's light it's like fighting with a spear shaft. If it's heavy it like fighting with a pipe or treebranch. Niether, in my opinion, does the type of damage that would brake a shield or crush plate armor. Although these things(pipes and spearshafts) are inarguably "weapons" they are NOT the saem thing as a hammer head on a long handle, or a claymore. I like the feeling that if we were really fighting, I would have just cut you in half from shoulder to groin. Not given you a nice bruise and maybe a broken collar bone.
I know this is a just a sport, but tube weapons just don't feel real enough for me.
FB
Warlord of the Western Uruk-Hai
Don't call it a comeback
I been here for years
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