Thread:8-Bit Jack/@comment-4202322-20130521102126/@comment-5607198-20130522134936

First off, I want you to find a mirror and shake your head at yourself for your second sentence.

Second, as far as the game is concerned, it's single-edged weapons against unarmored or mostly unarmored opponents, HOW you inure them is less important than that you do. In european society, metal armor made slashes all but useless, but once armor ceased to be practical, swords made for quicker movements arrived to fill the gap. For instance, if I am fighting someone wielding a sabre, despite my strength, i am at a severe disadvantage in terms of speed. While none of his strikes will have my power behind them, he can move from one attack into another and murder me. So again, I can't really speak to the accuracy of movement in the game, except to say that "Yep, you wouldn't wanna get hit"

My swordfights are all amateur stuff, and none of us have any real training (except one guy who has kendo training and uses his own bokken instead of one of my swords). Unfortunately, this means that they are only confident using the weapons themselves, and will not participate if other movements are used. I will feign kicks sometimes with the kendo guy, but no, we don't use punches kicks or throws like a real fight would, we just beat eachother with sticks until somebody says stop.