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<blockquote data-quote="Andor" data-source="post: 6343944" data-attributes="member: 1879"><p>That's ... simplistic. Early dueling did use heavier blades, but as it moved from a street or battlefield skill where fighting in the round was critical to survival to a formalized dueling skill where it was one on one the point emerged as the most lethal element of the sword. The spanish and italian schools of fence centered on the rapier or epee (decended from the estoc, a battlefield weapon) in single bladed styles. (Not exculsively, Florence rather famoulsy favored Rapier and main-gauche.) The English stayed with heavier blades and bucklers and tended to get killed in duels with the europeans. In street fighting you would usually use something in your off hand, dagger, scabbard, cloak, etc. Eventually it evolved into the small sword and then modern sport fencing. </p><p></p><p>But in a one on one fight a single blade is a perfectly viable choice, I used to often fight single against two weapon fighters in SCA fencing and did pretty well. Although sword and cloak is a lot of fun, few systems support it though. </p><p></p><p>Historical fighting styles are a big subject, and I'm actually probably a bit dated in my knowledge as there has been a big resurrgence of interest, with accompanying research, with the popularity of the SCA, HACA, ARMA and probably a dozen other acronym laden groups of people who like to hit each other with sticks and steel. Most often the research goes along the lines of "That looks ridiculous, the historical writers must have got the details wrong." Followed by painful lessons where it usually turns out that no, the people who killed people for a living did actually know how to fight.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Andor, post: 6343944, member: 1879"] That's ... simplistic. Early dueling did use heavier blades, but as it moved from a street or battlefield skill where fighting in the round was critical to survival to a formalized dueling skill where it was one on one the point emerged as the most lethal element of the sword. The spanish and italian schools of fence centered on the rapier or epee (decended from the estoc, a battlefield weapon) in single bladed styles. (Not exculsively, Florence rather famoulsy favored Rapier and main-gauche.) The English stayed with heavier blades and bucklers and tended to get killed in duels with the europeans. In street fighting you would usually use something in your off hand, dagger, scabbard, cloak, etc. Eventually it evolved into the small sword and then modern sport fencing. But in a one on one fight a single blade is a perfectly viable choice, I used to often fight single against two weapon fighters in SCA fencing and did pretty well. Although sword and cloak is a lot of fun, few systems support it though. Historical fighting styles are a big subject, and I'm actually probably a bit dated in my knowledge as there has been a big resurrgence of interest, with accompanying research, with the popularity of the SCA, HACA, ARMA and probably a dozen other acronym laden groups of people who like to hit each other with sticks and steel. Most often the research goes along the lines of "That looks ridiculous, the historical writers must have got the details wrong." Followed by painful lessons where it usually turns out that no, the people who killed people for a living did actually know how to fight. [/QUOTE]
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