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I have no "favorite" type. I don't run around having sword fights. My interest in swords is dependent upon many factors such as age, historical significance, quality, rarity, price, potential profit, etc etc.

The Danish swords they were making around the ninth and tenth century were pretty bad ass.

I don't know, generic european broadsword, two handed sword or longsword I guess

or maybe a katana if I was feeling original

favourite kind of sword for what exactly?

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Flammenschwert

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>katana if I was feeling original

>>10114
Flamberge
Grosse Messer
Claymore
in that ordeer

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Really.. you had to ask?

Technically a katana is a sabre.

Zweihander
Große Messer
1800's heavy cavalry sabre
Nodachi(although it's still a sabre, not a sword).

I dont know, straight and broadswords just dont do it for me. Armour defeats the purpose of having a straight sword, and a große messer can thrust as good as any other sword but still has the curvature to cleave and the blade is balaced closer to the tip so the weight aids in power. Like a hammer.

>>10129

>Technically a katana is a sabre.

Uh... no it's not, I think you should rethink your usage of the word "technically". Also you seem to think sabers aren't swords, which is also wrong.

>Armour defeats the purpose of having a straight sword

Despite what RPGs made you believe, people rarely walked around clad in full plate in middle ages. Also >>10130

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Cutless.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longsword#Combat

DEFINITELY the longsword for me, now that I've read a little further into the combat capabilities of a longsword and the versatility it has, I like a lot, if the guy has armour, just bash them on the head with the pommel repeatedly, by holding the blade and swinging with it

bwuahahahaha, also, armour has joints and stuff, you can easily get into those joints and kill the man if you're skilled enough, as armour limits your mobility a bit, that's why knights had to do stuff like hand stands just to be apprentices

knights were fit yo

>>10129
Actually, armor use gave us a type of straight sword. A rapier will go through chain links and chinks in armor. And I don't think anyone who fought in heavy armor against other people in heavy armor ever used curved swords.

I've heard it also gave way to weapons like the warhammer and mace. Helmets aren't helping you when those are involved.

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I love Sabers.

Pimpin' yo.

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Gladius.

Gotta love the classics...

>>10140

Oh I'm sure there was one crazy motherfucker from the Tutonic knights did.

>>10137

http://www.youtube.com/user/TheRealGladiatores

This might be of interest to you.

>>10140

You can't be serious. Rapier evolved as a civilian weapon, it was NEVER supposed to go against armor. Just look at it, in a confrontation with any "real" sword it would break or bend after one parry or one thrust.

HURR the Tachi Katana WAS IN FUCKING FACT a cavalry sabre.
And by armour:
Maximillian armour
/thread
And despite what you read on wikipedia is mostly true, KNIGHTS fought fully armoured. More so, French knights encountered Landsknechts very often, and one of the weapons that the Landsknecht favoured was the Zweihander. And im talking about BATTLES, not casual animu encounters on the street with lots of sugoii and desu.

And yes, people who fought with armoured individuals fought with curved swords, but also with maces and clubs. Crusades, anyone?

Calm down and stop posting.

>>10148

A saber and a katana are both backswords but a katana is not a saber, much in the same way that all Catholics are Christians but not all Christians are Catholics.

I'd have to say the Nodachi is my favorite 'sword' type weapon. Long and hefty, without being overly cumbersome like a European broadsword, or eastern european long sword.

>>10149
I said people wearing heavy armor fought with. Made no mention of who they were going up against or what they were carrying.

>>10154

You do realize nodachi is essentially equivalent of european greatswords, right? It's definitely more cumbersome than german longsword and arming sword. Assuming it was even a real weapon and not just a training tool or translation error(if it's build the same way as katana it would be rather fragile).

https://7chan.org/w/res/10114.html#10147

thanks so much!

that move where they use those dagger things and so on and that pony tail person twists and gets it in the gut in the end (well would have in a real fight) reminds me that if you use your body and twist it you can provide a leverage point there as well, putting off technique users if you're fast enough

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the machete.. but only if it was made of 1095 carbon, had a real hilt and was full tang... and wasnt a piece of shit.
and if you say machetes are not swords than neather is the cutlass, gladius, ida, or scabbard

https://7chan.org/w/res/10114.html#10187

way to bring a knife to a swordfight

I mean, it's a really BIG, STRONG knife, but it's not a sword, that one anyways

>>10187

you're right. a scabbard (n. -a case in which a sword is placed) is totally a sword.

My favorite would have to be a Scottish Claymore. Long, heavy, made for destruction.

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>>10192
>claymore
lolwut

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not sure why i said scabbard when i was thinking khopesh (see pic) and considering most machetes are two to three feet long, i call that a short sword. its a shame you cant buy a machete made with any real quality, theres nothing like hack and slash in the back yard and suddenly notice your chopper has snaped and you dont know where the other half went flying

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Scottish Claymore.
for those times when someone needs to die but you just dont feel like walking all the way over there

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Mameluke sword, fo'sure.

https://7chan.org/w/res/10114.html#10204

okay, I'm changing my vote from longsword to the sword in the background on the wall with the extra bit of a blade/handle thing on it

THAT is a fucking rocking sword in the back there

sweet jesus mother of mercy, you could ram that through armour if you wanted to... or cleave a guy's head off

disclaimer: the reason I picked longsword is because I didn't realize two handed swords were actually that much bigger than longswords...

damn. wow

Technically, longswords too were two-handed swords. There were some longswords which were one handed, but that was definite minority.

What common folk(and people who make video games/pnp RPGs) means by "two-handed sword" is usually something halfway between Claymore(which had blade "just" 10cm longer than the longsword) and Zweihander(which had a blade of up to 150cm long). In the actual medieval times, the term "two-handed sword" didn't even exist*; instead there was a concept of a great sword, which usually meant normal sword scaled up.

And as for combat with such monsters, they probably handled more like polearms than actual swords.

oh shit, zweinhanders are even BIGGER?

fuck having a dick I'll take those any day

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You'll never know when I'm coming.Even if you see me you can't be sure if I'm holding a sword or just a cane until your head is split in two.

>>10230
Yes, we will never know when you are coming with a cheap piece of semi-sharpened stainless steel until you clumsily attempt to bludgeon us over the head with it, resulting in a cry of "What the HELL, dude, that fuckin hurts!"

>>10230

Yes, you'll blend in perfectly among all the other teenagers who visit local Target with walking sticks.

actually a sword cane's main strength is the wtf factor, and the sharpness of the blade, it was used as a status symbol and as a possible weapon

the main thing is it's most useful style of useage is akin to that of a razor or exacto blade

anyways, I don't see a problem with using a real cane to break it (it's more solid)

and to beat the shit out of the person wielding a sword cane

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>>10235
fill brass door knob with melted lead. braze to end of steel rod. add grip tape and door stop to the bottem. pimp walk with cane untill its time to crush ah skull.
(pic is google found and i think i see hot glue attaching nob to cane, but you get the idea.)
but thats a blugening tool, and dosnt belong in a sword thred

just reading your description felt like my skull was already caving in, gruesome

>>10188
Whaddya think a Grosse Messer is?

(Hint: Run the name through a German to English translator)

great mass?

that sounds like grosse messe

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMLiTpzQgsc&feature=related

Those Turks were crazy motherfuckers, if a chubby goth fag can do that, someone who knows what he's doing would be ready to murder a couple knights, some samurais and a bonus musqueteer.

>>10281
Grosse Messer = Big Knife
I think.

to some degree, the point about that show is just how brutal EVERY civilization's warfare is

it's funny, it PRETTY much equalizes everyone in that sense

>>10313

Knights and samurai wore armor against which that would be almost useless. Musketeers had guns.

So did the ottomans and valachians and they still killed each other with that thing, halberds, crossbows and pistols.

Wearing armor doesnt make you instantly inmune to weapons, otherwise no war would have ever been won.

pffft lies and blasphemy, any quarter inch thick shit will stop a nuke, don't be ridiculous

the real way wars are won is discipline, they just beat on eachother with sticks until one gets bored, the other becomes the winner

and now you know why discipline is so important in the military~

>Wearing armor doesnt make you instantly inmune to weapons

A good armor makes you immune to significant majority of swords, especially draw-cutting swords which rely more on slashing than chopping motion. For example the german longsword failed to penetrate (relatively) common maile in most cases.

you ever been hit really hard with the flat side of a sword?

penetration is not the only thing a big chunk of metal is good for

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i have. while wearing chainmaille, plate spaulders, couter, pauldron and gorgets we decided to test and battle damage all pieces.
chops slashes and thrusts delt with a machete felt no more than light pushes and left very nice dents and scratches. then we brought out the excaleber replica. it was no more efective and bent after a few wacks(pos).then we got out the hatchet and ax. i could only take a few hits with them, it was like getting hit with a bat. i wound up with a brused sholder but it was worth it. thies were well placed hits not ment to inflick damage but still. it takes a real chink of steel to deter anyone with armor. in full dress i dont think i would step down from anyone with less than a claymore or pole ax
but like you said, penetration is not the only thing a big chunk of metal is good for. your right. even with armor large swords are bone breakers
pic related because you should own and use at least five of thies

I too, have worn chain armour and taken hits in it (but not plate)

pointy knives are not comfortable... kitchen knives, armoured people's worst nightmare... also, knife sharpeners (the old school ones that look almost like some round thick sword) GOD THEY CAN PIERCE AND STAB IF YOU SHOVE THEM HARD

there is a point, at least with longswords and the like, at least european weapons style(fuck replicas) where it just fucking hurts like a bitch

and it's pretty damn easy to hack and slash with a wood axe through metal to the point where it's not the axe going through you, it's the fucking chain mail itself I think that's what was getting you, wasn't it?

/cringed at that one

we went easy on it since the chain armour wasn't made perfectly, but fairly closely to a large degree

the guy I know has a knack for it

is there a particularly useful chain mail type where there are in fact, larger loops with smaller loops in some form or another, that provides a slight rigidity, so that impact with blunt weapons is spread throughout the armour more, but impact with smaller weapons is still held back?

>you ever been hit really hard with the flat side of a sword?

No, and I can't think of anybody who wound, because what would be the point of that?

>penetration is not the only thing a big chunk of metal is good for

Obviously, but we're talking about whether it's possible to "murder a couple knights, some samurais and a bonus musqueteer", not make few bone fractures at best.

I will fracture your bones and use your fractured bones to jab into other parts of your body making you bleed to death

/signed, a couple of samurai's, knights, and a musketeer's opponent

>>10128
Lol, Autonomous Mobile Swords. Enjoy being cut to pieces and having your pieces hauled off to the production plant for resources.

I'd have to say the kopis

>>10313

That's hardcore.
Isn't it kinda like a Hussar sabre?

Cane sword. The gentleman's weapon.

>>10140
What the bloody hell are you talking about? The rapier was categorically not designed to locate any ¨chinks¨ in armour. Back to the classroom!
www.salvadorfabris.com

>>10140
Incorrect. A rapier as opposed to a smallsword has an almost identical mass to a katana or equivalent weapon. Its just longer. Modern repros are bendy for safety reasons

while the katar owns all, dual gladius isn't too bad.
if one handed is required I'd go for a thick bladed scimitar.

>katar
>dual wielding

Please stop posting.

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, Indo-Persian Gold & Silver Inlaid Armour-Piercing Katar Dagger Mounted with 'working' Twin 50 Cal. Musket Percussion Pistols (all mechanisms: locking hammers, trigger pulls, including springs are fully functional) - Measuring 19" long overall, with 9-1/2" long Engraved Blade with Armour-Piercing Tip.

Keris:
If the multiple stab wounds don't kill you, the deadly poison will.

I cannot believe the viking sword hasn't been mentioned. :c

>>10557

Well, deadliest warrior, as jock as it is, has shown us that thing actualy punctures chain mail like it was made of toilet paper.

>Well, deadliest warrior

Nothing like a reliable source, eh.

Hurrr durrr durrr durr let's be original.

Katana for me.

No better source than seeing it happening, Katars are hardcore.

Kilij or Gladius.

>No better source than seeing it happening

You must be pretty old

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>>10205
Mameluke Ppptthhh Real men carry this

Arming sword

Zweihander, because nobody, but nobody, fucks with someone holding one.

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-All your swords suck. I win.

>>10711
/thread

>>10114
>Fictional swords don't count.

i find i like the feel of a Grosse Messer and the Ninjato

epee

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Falcata (pic is an actual 4th century B.C exemplar)

not technically a sword but kukri all the way

>>10214
your actuly right about "great sword" and that's they were used more like a spear or halberd then like there shorter equivalents, mostly cos if you miss you would be fucked swinging something that long.

>>10792
mostly because these swords were designed to dismount knights.

if by knights you mean calvary, play less fucking warcraft.

>>10793

"greatswords" weren't designed to do anything. They were just bigger versions of already existing swords, made with the bigger = better mentality.

XVIIIb is my favourate

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Just chillin' with my kali sticks, feeling vastly superior to all you bladefags.

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>>10811
I was under the impression that those were pretty much used interchangeably with these.

Claymores and Khukris

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Chakram. Not my favorite, but they are AWESOME. And nobody has mentioned them yet.

Primary hand; Bearded one-handed axe, with a 6 inch steel spike at the opposite end of the handle, and a clover head opposite the axehead.
Secondary Hand; Hooded Katar/Shield Katar.
Armor; a combination of light place, scale and chainmaille.

Strategies?
Short swords/Daggers; Charge, use the shield to block the blade, and pick/bludgeon/axe to death.
Short sword and Shield; Block with shield, hook enemy shield with axe, punch enemy in face/neck/groin/ribs with katar blade.
Long sword; Block with shield, catch/parry with axe, bludgeon/pick/axe/facestab enemy into deathness.

The basic idea is, the sheild has a blade on it, so ti acts as a primarily defensive weapon, with offensive abilities, and the axe is bearded (so it has a hook on it) which lends it parrying abilities. if the enemy attacks, you have a whole laundry list of options, from using the shield to block and hooking their arm/leg/groin/head with the axe, to just blocking and then punching them in the face with the katar while they recover.

Oh, as a side note?
Katanas; block w/ shield, katarpunch in face. Or parry with axe, katarpunch in face. or block with shield, use 6 inch steel deathspike to icepick them in the face. Or block with shield, hook arm with axe, slice tendons with katar. I initially designed this set for theoretical use against mounted knights. On foot.

Boredom+Blacksmith=What have I done?

>>10828

/tg/ is two boards up.

Sword-gun

The katana yes the katana is overrated, but it's fairly versatile, powerful, and can be wielded in a large variety of ways. Also, it's not really a "pick up and slash" weapon, you need at least some training to wield it in any way that's effective against even a mildly skilled unarmed opponent.

The longsword is a close second, easy to wield one handed with a shield, but also very effective two handed. it loses points for being rather easy to wield to mild effect, though most people would never think of a morte strike or anything similar on their own. Fool's guard is fun on newbies, totally lives up to its name.

>>10831

Please

don't