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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WizarDru" data-source="post: 426847" data-attributes="member: 151">Well, the first thing is that we're not simply discussing fencing, we're discussing Swashbuckling fencing.  As has pointed out, you may be confusing sport fencing with it's combat equivalent, particularly with respect to dueling (which is a very common swashbuckling trope).  I can certainly see why you might be disappointed if you saw a title that conjured visions of Agrippa style versus Capella style, or Ni-Ten-Ryu versus Ha-Ken-Do, and instead got a couple of parrying feats.  However, I wouldn't see that as a failing of the article, as much as possibly a failure of the marketing of said article.As for Sharpe...if we're talking about the Sean Bean films....well, he is certainly NOT a sword fighter.  He's a rifleman in the Crimean War (and beyond).  He's also a rough and tumble fighter, so I could easily beating a court fop in a duel in the 1820s, by which time combat fencing had long since faded as a necessary art of war.I could just as easily pull out the fight scene from 'Rob Roy' between Tim Roth's character and Liam Neeson's character as an example of the deadliness of even duelist fencing, when a capable opponent is involved.  The only reason Roth's character looses the fight is that he lets the fight go on too long.All that aside, how did you feel about issue #299?  Although I was somewhat concerned about the lack of thickness (even though content remained steady), I thought it was a fairly solid issue, as well.</blockquote>

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