Re: (TFT) 18's & broken weapons / weird stuff / variety of encounter. 2

["Neil Gilmore" <raito@raito.com>]

> At 09:20 AM 2/25/04 -0600, Neil Gilmore wrote:
> >... The idea of being
> >able to kill someone in plate armor with a single handed sword is
ludicrous.
>
> How so?

According to many period sources, sword combat between fully (plate) armored
persons devolves into wrestling with crowbars for leverage. Specifically, de
Libieri tells the student to not bother swinging a longsword (with 2 hands,
even) at someone in armor, but to half-sword (move the left hand from the
pommel to halfway up the blade), and wrestle. Of course, medieval wrestling
was more concerned with breaking bones and joints, but you get the idea.

Even poll axe play was considered to be just vigorous exercise.

>
> Perhaps possible (which spells are these?), but is that industry what ITL
> describes? I don't see any magical spell requirements for the smith jobs.

I was meaning here that >if< magic was industrialized, that would be the
result. Even if not indistrialized, it could still be done by individuals.

> What would you say about Charles' comment about the modern steel sword
that
> snapped on the third tap in the video?

Perhaps I'd amend that to be a properly made sword made from modern steel.

Neil Gilmore
raito@raito.com
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