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Message: <blockquote data-quote="doctorbadwolf" data-source="post: 8294707" data-attributes="member: 6704184">Pretty much this. The arm probably isn’t removed, though, just disabled.   Defending against a sword with anything other than a shield or another sword is hard. Hell it’s hard to do with a polearm, one on one. You basically have to be a better athlete than the swordsman, and keep them at bay until they flag and you can get lucky. Assuming equal training and talent.   Someone who has trained to sprint and lunge at off angles, within about 20 ft or less of a gunman, both having to ready their weapon and go for the attack, both equally trained, at best the gunman has even odds of living or dying.    Hitting the object in someone’s hand, when they are trying to hold it still, is not that hard. I trained to do it with a practice sword as a party trick. Hitting a thing in an enemy’s hand aside then stabbing them is...sword fighting.</blockquote>