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Dec 15, 2005, 2:59am

I am looking for a listing of sword fighting maneuvers with descriptions of
each. If any of you are sword fighting fans, please help me with your own
personal knowledge or your favorite resources.

I am in the early stages of planning an RPG world and am doing research on
sword fighting moves for combat gameplay. So far, I have only been able to
find pages detailing combat moves specific to their respective RPG games and
pages which discuss sword fighting in general terms (no descriptions of
specific moves).

What I need is a listing of the names of as many moves as possible, ranging
from the most basic to the more advanced, with a short description of each
and the defensive moves that can counteract each one successfully (along
with its description). And, I would prefer these moves to be real sword
fighting moves, not fictitious ones used in RPG games--I can make up my own
additional moves based on the real ones.

Any resources that you could give me would be much appreciated. Thanks!!

Dec 16, 2005, 9:37pm

Heya , sounds neat, what sort of style of sword fighting are you attempting
to recreate?
There are many different styles and types, fencing uses 3 primary weapons
for example each wiht a different style;
Foil, Epee and Sabre; then there's the eastern kantana- another discpline
and completely different style- or are you looking for a medievel broadsword
recreation? (possibly the easiest style that you could recreate in aw
avatars I should assume if that is what you are intending).
Not a whole lot online wiht follow through pictures, prolly best off wiht
lookin in books, there are plenty avaiable- but this site does have a some
shots of sword techniques of a medievil style
http://www.bellatrix.org/school/ which could prove useful- and provides some
terminology aswell...
Hope it helps,
Heretik.


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Dec 16, 2005, 11:31pm

I am looking more for premedieval mediterranean region (ie, Roman, Greek,
etc) style since Medieval is way over done in role play. Hehe, I may be
showing my ignorance though. For all I know they could be the same style
:o)

Interesting site, but a bit too much information than I am looking for. I
do appreciate the resource, though. I will bookmark it for sure :)

As to your question about what kind of world it will be: well, it will be an
alien world with no earthly relationship (not an alternate reality like
AWRPG or Arcadia which share much of Earth's folklore and mythology and
customs in medieval times). It will be a world of the "unclad
warrior".......umm.....I think I have said too much already....

Thanks, again.



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Dec 17, 2005, 3:17am

That era was big on short swords, like the Gladius. And those favor
ordinary slashing, not trusting, and not to great for parrying either. I
think you have to pay more attention to spears than swords if that's your
era, I think...

- Com

Dec 17, 2005, 5:17am

He's right. The era of the Roman Empire was more heavily focused on spearman
and archers rather than swordplay. Swords didn't become a major weapon on
the battlefield until the development of the broadsword in the medieval
times. This is not including, of course, the Japanese sword skills, which
were used prolifically in about the same era.

So you need to decide if it's the era you want, and change your weapon
focus, or the weapon you want to feature and adjust your era.


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Dec 17, 2005, 5:38am

On the other hand who says you have to mimic Earth? Your in the AW
universe - do your own thing, be creative, make your own era and timeline ;D


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Dec 17, 2005, 11:39am

[View Quote] I wouldn't trust 'em, either!!!

; )

Dec 17, 2005, 7:55pm

That is exactly what I am trying to do...

Well, actually, the world is inspired by my favorite sword fighter of all
time, John Carter of Mars (though it is very different than Mars in some
ways).

I do not believe there is a related "era" in Earth's history that I can use
to describe the culture and customs of the world.

But, for the purpose of gameplay in the world, I was hoping to find a list
of "generic" sword fighting moves to use for combat. Well, I still am not
able to find anything like that, so I might have to revise my gameplay
procedure some how so as to omit specific descriptive actions.

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