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Post by musicalpoo on Apr 9, 2009 20:27:08 GMT
nicely done! I like the broad head, very brutal/phallic indeed +1 for the cool design!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 12, 2009 8:17:20 GMT
The thing about is it would be impossible to hold up unless you're 10ft tall and 500lbs. If you could hold it up it wouldn't be an efficetive weapon. you couldn't control it one swing if you missed a person would be inside stabbing or cutting you up. Someone with a shield would just knock it to the side close and kill you. Same thing with real sword knock it to the side down or up. The spanish did it against swiss pikemen closed with short swords and cut them to pieces.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 12, 2009 14:39:36 GMT
It will function more like a polearm, particularly a halberd, then a sword. Generally I regard most "true" two-handed swords as polearms. You can not perform most German and Italian longsword techniques comfortably with such a large weapon, but you can perform many polearm techniques. Here is some historical stuff to read through related to your weapon of choice: www.kismeta.com/diGrasse/XVTwoHand.htmwww.kismeta.com/diGrasse/XVIStaff.htmGeorge Silver says to use the Two-Handed sword like a short staff. www.sirwilliamhope.org/Library/Silver/SilverModern.php#Cap10The head of the blade may prove useful in hooking and unhorsing Calvary. In some situations you may be able to hook a shield and then thrust to the face. The depth of the head may even allow you to reach behind a shield-block to the head (just like an axe can). You a have to balance these possible benefits against the fact that this weapon will move slower. It can also be fouled up by obstacles around since it makes a large arch. Just some stuff to think about.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 14, 2009 7:33:36 GMT
Why not just get a halberd, or a large axe?
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Post by musicalpoo on Apr 14, 2009 8:07:26 GMT
Why not just get a halberd, or a large axe? why not just wear a gauntlet and make this a weapon of superb capabilities? I am a HUGE fan of two handed swords, and can see how this sword would KICK ASS! So, imagine you have a halberd, and you are fighting someone with the claymore of carnage. you have a long wooden stick (AWESOME don't get me wrong) with an axe/spear head, then someone swings this claymore of carnage at you...what do you do...all you can do is move! and if you manage to escape the giant reach of this weapon in time to not die, the wielder then grabs the blade and is back in fighting position in no time. Though not a good zombie sword (I always thought that a simple arming sword was good enough to kill a zombie, no need to waste energy when you only need to cut off a head, not through armor) this is an excellent sword against heavily armored cavalry.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 14, 2009 15:35:43 GMT
why not just wear a gauntlet and make this a weapon of superb capabilities? I am a HUGE fan of two handed swords, and can see how this sword would KICK ASS! So, imagine you have a halberd, and you are fighting someone with the claymore of carnage. you have a long wooden stick (AWESOME don't get me wrong) with an axe/spear head, then someone swings this claymore of carnage at you...what do you do...all you can do is move! and if you manage to escape the giant reach of this weapon in time to not die, the wielder then grabs the blade and is back in fighting position in no time. Though not a good zombie sword (I always thought that a simple arming sword was good enough to kill a zombie, no need to waste energy when you only need to cut off a head, not through armor) this is an excellent sword against heavily armored cavalry. A halberd would be much faster, which is the problem. The weight of this weapon will slow it's wielder down enough that by the time he goes on the offensive and starts to take a swing, he'd get nailed through the throat with the spear point. Or, even if the swing is good, the halberder would move out of the way of the swing, then the claymore wielder would get stabbed in recovery of the swing. That's just my thoughts. I'm not saying that it wouldn't be awesome to make, I'm just commenting on it's practicality.
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Post by musicalpoo on Apr 14, 2009 19:26:49 GMT
alright, there are benefits to both halberds and this sword. Agree to disagree.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 15, 2009 17:26:21 GMT
As a six foot 170 lb person myself, I would be wiling to fight anyone with your "claymore" armed only with a spear or halberd, and leather armor. You go into this long drawn out thing about your style, which I'm not attacking, I'm just saying that recovery for a "slash" with your weapon is a much greater time than the average recovery for a thrust of a spear or halberd. If you chose to "slash" in a fight against another polearm, you're doneski. Also, no one is going to thrust at you from twelve feet away so that you can "chop the head of the poleaxe off" You won't be able to "chop with such a large weapon at a target that is less than a foot from you when you sidestep.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 17, 2009 14:57:45 GMT
I tried to look up doneski can't find it what does it mean. Don't you just love it when someone deletes all thier post then the rest of them don't make sense.
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Post by Reisz on Apr 17, 2009 15:21:22 GMT
It just means done. as in done for,
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Post by Deleted on Apr 17, 2009 15:25:52 GMT
Thank you, I feel stupid now I've heard it before. Just alittle brain dead after working all night. Need to go to bed before I make a fool out of myself again.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 17, 2009 17:31:44 GMT
Where's the sword? I don't see anything.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 17, 2009 18:05:52 GMT
I cant see this sword where is it?It's a claymore it should stan out lol
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Post by Deleted on Apr 17, 2009 18:23:37 GMT
He deleted it, it was a drawing of a huge sword on piece of plywood. I think if it had of been made out of steel it would weight around 30lbs It had a 7ft 4in wide nontapering blade that flared out into a 7in wide arrow tip, 12in crossguard with4 4in spikes on each side and if I remember right a 15in grip The blade didn't have fuller and was of a diamond pattern.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 17, 2009 18:34:29 GMT
I tried to look up doneski can't find it what does it mean. Don't you just love it when someone deletes all thier post then the rest of them don't make sense. Doneski is: Done Finished. Over Kaput. Dead. Anyways, His goal was to "combine the best qualities of a claymore, polearm, and axe" into one weapon.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 17, 2009 19:14:29 GMT
Thanks fallen for the specs of the claymore
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Post by Deleted on Apr 19, 2009 6:19:51 GMT
His goal was to "combine the best qualities of a claymore, polearm, and axe" into one weapon. Nothing wrong with that. It is a design thread after all. I actually experimented for a while with a very large 6.5 foot Greatsword.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 19, 2009 17:36:16 GMT
Yeah thats a really great design!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 20, 2009 1:32:00 GMT
I learned something interesting today. I have not verified it but I was told by a knowledgeable person that the tern "claymore" just means sword in Gaelic. This was a source of confusion fro me because I have heard both two-handed monsters and single handed broadswords referred to as Claymore.
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Post by alvin on Apr 20, 2009 2:31:49 GMT
I learned something interesting today. I have not verified it but I was told by a knowledgeable person that the tern "claymore" just means sword in Gaelic. This was a source of confusion fro me because I have heard both two-handed monsters and single handed broadswords referred to as Claymore. Here's a small discussion at electricscotland on the different spellings of various Scottish sword types. I read it that the term claidheamh must be Gaelic word equivalent to sword (?) Worth a little more study. www.electricscotland.com/familytree/magazine/augsep2002/claymore.htm
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