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So, more or less it means "if possible, carry on as if nothing had happened". Thanks for the answers!

Let's assume the situation of two combatants with decent armor, like maile, and longswords.

One of the combatants manages to get a sideways cut in to the hip or the ribcage. I would assume the hit hurts, but since we're not talking heavy weaponry here like an axe the padding should be able to ...

coool, thanks a lot!

Well, the Jon Snow training scenes so far didn't look too bad. Much grappling and pretty fast action. I sure hope they'll show the rest of the tournament in the next episode, then we should know for sure what to expect from more serious fight scenes.

It would seem that you are asking pretty similiar questions as I have quite recently, you should take a look at this thread:
http://www.thearma.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=24303

Thanks a lot guys, this has all been very helpfull. I think I got it all together for the moment...

A single hander with a short grip/pommel with suite you better when using most things in your offhand.

So there were "longsword" designs specifically designed for one hand? Then what has led to them being called longswords as opposed to the previously discussed side swords? I imagine they are ...

This is kind of a re-learning for me... Now I wonder what a one-and-a-half hander (called Bastard, if I'm not mistaken) actually is. I always thought it is a longsword with a hilt that can comfortably accomodate two hands, but obviously that assumption is wrong too. Is a bastard actually shorter ...

Silver and Swetnam were both English, and Di Grassi and Saviolo were both translated into English in the 1590s. You can find them all here (along with other go

yay, moar links! Thanks! :D

The weapon Meyer describes as a Rappier is more akin to the sidesword seen in DiGrassi and similar works ...

The simple reason why that would be better is that I understand german, as opposed to italian or french...
Thanks!

Edit: hmmm, just looked up Meyer. So a side-sword seems more in the likes of a rapier (indeed Meyer calls it a rapier, but as I understand it the term is not too fixed in its ...

great, not a single german... will have to find translations somewhere of some of them, I guess. Thanks a lot for the names, anyways!

Ah, thanks.

I'm getting a bit confused on my research trip, as I find more and more of my preconceptions to be plainly wrong. After finding that longswords are usually used with both hands, I thought the single handed swords are the Messer, but again it turns out not to be so...

Do you happen to ...

I got a bit confused on finding Talhoffers manual on "Messer" (http://wiktenauer.com/wiki/Hans_Talhoffer/Single-Hand_Swords)

Probably my confusion stems from the fact that "Messer" in modern german means "knive", while on the drawings it looks pretty much like Messer at the time were more akin to ...

As a perfect example: for the movie "Season of the Witch" it got out that they wanted people with a RMA background as extras for "realistic fight scenes". As such a slew of ARMA members went to the casting call. You want to know how many were picked.......zero. They all lost out to people who were ...

I must warn you all, this is a bit of a lengthy read. It is the full concept draft for the melee phase of the combat. Combat will generally be played in two phases, one used for movement, ranged attacks and other melee unrelated actions. If a character steps near an enemy in this phase, the two of ...