are you trying to imply something about my boy shashka?
How about make it straight for a bit, then it do a little back curve near the end?
Real swords have curves 😤
Why not both.
“What does Katana mean?”
“It means Japanese sword”
- Samurai Cop
Fucking legendary
Althoigh this sword\katana discourse is all known at that point, I can’t help myself but adding rapier at the western side to spice things up.
Would rapier\katana comparison work better?
Rapiers are a tad more modern, but there is a parallel in how they were a bit of a status symbol and often used for less “normal warfare” scenarios.
Hey, have you seen those Japanese? They have curved swords. Curved… Swords…!
Psst… hail Sithis.
Persians absolutely malding right now.
To be fair it is sharp enough to cut through atoms and space time destroying the fabric of reality allowing you to turn back time to the Big Bang and reshape the universe in your image.
Well it’s no 1896 pattern light cavalry saber…
InFeRiOr ErOpEaN WeApOnS!1
Sword but very curved and yet not very famous
(Ethiopian shotel)Pretty famous among FromSoft fans.
Dex build rejoice
Well i’m not one of them.
This looks more like a scythe that doubles as a weapon to me
It was probably inspired by Egyptian khopesh since it was used in Ethiopia even before the kingdom of Axum. Thing is, the blade is sharp on both sides. So you could either use its inner side as big sickle to reach around enemy shield and try for the weak spots like neck, face or armpits, or if the enemy didn’t had a shield you could turn it to outer side and in this case it was similar to Persian shamshir in being excellent weapon against unarmored opponents.
Two more interesting thing about it was 1: the designs varies greatly, most were shorter and wider, the curvature also varied; and 2: it apparently worked quite well considering it has been in use for possibly over 2500 years and some Ethiopian emperors even organised special elite units wielding it.
Isn’t a khopesh sharp on the other side of the curve from a shotel, though? It seems like sharpening the inside was the big innovation that makes shotels distinctive
Yes, it was upgrade of khopesh.
Just how long is that? I struggle to calculate it from what I see.
Blade is around 1 meter long.
That looks way longer
It do looks longer than it is because of proportions. It’s very thin and the handle is pretty short compared to European blades because the blade is also very light so it don’t need much counterweight.
Probably the round thing (a shield?) fooled us both. For me it looked like a two-hander.
I’ve been watching a japanese sword master on YT demonstrating moves. It’s very interesting how they decide when they pull it out which side of the curve they lead with, a choice they make in a split second, and the different attacks each method would have. Even European swords weren’t just sharp hammers, they had practical moves and defenses lost in the movies.
most members of the warrior class were little more than brutish thugs. A handful would have taken the strategy of individual combat seriously and they would have done quite well.
The majority of the people they were fighting were lightly armored at best and they could get away with just swinging the sharp end at the unfortunate peasant conscripted to try to stop them.
There are plenty of examples of knights and samurai alike, falling for just the most obvious trap you could imagine. Templars charging in to open gates, samurai rushing to duel a guy who insulted them, in both cases blood drunk and stupid, children of privilege and in armor by accident of birth.
The Last Duel is a decent example of what happens when guys like that and up fighting each other.
We tend to have a romantic view of the past, but we have a great Instagram filter between us and then. Reality is ugly and violent. Few people are artists, even fewer are talented artists. This is true whether they’re painting or drawing blood.
I mean… That still works. In Iraq the US Army routinely ran bait ambushes in areas AQ was known to operate. Oh look a single vehicle and they’re waving beer bottles around. That’s not a trap at all… Meanwhile there’s an entire infantry platoon traveling dark and silent just out of the light behind them.
Hit us with a link my man
Japanese soft power funded by US is doing its job
Have you seen those warriors from Hammerfell? They’ve got curved swords.
BIG. Curved penises.
Curved! Swords!
I worked with a super nice weird guy. He was always bringing in his 3d printed warhammer sets to the shop. Respect. One day he was talking about his sword. I was like, did you buy the sword in a mall? And he said yes, he bought it in a mall. I should have let it go. Anyways I am not friends with that guy.
The same guy would write a five-page essay about how much similar curved swords like scimitars and sabres suck.
