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<blockquote data-quote="dave2008" data-source="post: 7831819" data-attributes="member: 83242">Very fun - thanks for sharing!&nbsp; Looks like with these guys the spear had about a 2/1 advantage.&nbsp; Though it really did look like they required a much grander hit for sword to count than thy did for the spear&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> I know i would have run through some of those glancing blows and carved up the spear user.&nbsp; And the first double &quot;no count&quot; was clearly a hit by the sword way before the spear user (of course the 2nd one seemed to be the opposite).&nbsp; And they counted the spear as succeeding when the user was disarmed of his spear!&nbsp; I don't know how that counts when the &quot;kill&quot; wasn't made with the spear?!&nbsp; It probably wasn't biased, but it gave that impression t me a bit.&nbsp; Regardless, I do really like the spear uses techniques, much better than what I've seen in the local LARP circuit.Interestingly, the most effective technique fro the sword user seemed to be to bull rush the spear user.&nbsp; This didn't work very often for the people in the video, but the rusher consistently got past the spear and had an open opportunity to finish of the spear user.&nbsp; it was just the sword user wasn't very good once the got past the spear. It also makes me think that wearing heavy armor would actually be a good thing, despite what [USER=7015476]@Son of the Serpent[/USER]suggests.&nbsp; Per that video plate would deflect about 90% of the &quot;killing&quot; blows in this video. That was something else I wasn't expecting.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="dave2008, post: 7831819, member: 83242"] Very fun - thanks for sharing! Looks like with these guys the spear had about a 2/1 advantage. Though it really did look like they required a much grander hit for sword to count than thy did for the spear ;) I know i would have run through some of those glancing blows and carved up the spear user. And the first double "no count" was clearly a hit by the sword way before the spear user (of course the 2nd one seemed to be the opposite). And they counted the spear as succeeding when the user was disarmed of his spear! I don't know how that counts when the "kill" wasn't made with the spear?! It probably wasn't biased, but it gave that impression t me a bit. Regardless, I do really like the spear uses techniques, much better than what I've seen in the local LARP circuit. Interestingly, the most effective technique fro the sword user seemed to be to bull rush the spear user. This didn't work very often for the people in the video, but the rusher consistently got past the spear and had an open opportunity to finish of the spear user. it was just the sword user wasn't very good once the got past the spear. It also makes me think that wearing heavy armor would actually be a good thing, despite what [USER=7015476]@Son of the Serpent[/USER] suggests. Per that video plate would deflect about 90% of the "killing" blows in this video. That was something else I wasn't expecting. [/QUOTE]

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