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Not really if you use two knives like in the post after me it would be from shorter distance. If you have two pistols out your accuracy would be less because your not holding it as firm. their are plenty of ways to make it balanced

Just for reference, I'm pretty sure that Katana's are made for one hand use laso. But again it's already in game to (See curved blade) so never no mind.

i know fencing is the word used for the art of yes Fencing, and uses rapiers and the like. But the way I saa fencer ingame, theyare masters ofany onehanded weapon be it our stun baton (should not be our final weapon aqusition) rapier or the lag of a broken bar stool, but essentially mostly blades.

Any way what I'm trying to say is that I would love to see a greater range of one-handed weapons. rapiers,numerous daggers, and I would very much like to see medivel swords like long swords, **edit** swords (Also refered to as 1½ hander) Gladius (the roman sword) scimitar (arabian sword, not as curved as the Ryyk)

hand held shields of different designs, bucklers, stricktly parrying off.hand weapons that cannot attack but gives an armor or dodge(when propperly fixed)bonus

All of these with different technological aditions, vibro, mono, maybe nanobots that attack the opponents molecules, in effect causing burning/corrosive/electrical damage what ever the weapon is crafted for.

Also a fencing armor would be great, a light weight, notover protective and dextorous (low HAM cost) like the medivel leather and studded leather or padded armor.

Well that was my two nickles worth

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Timbohale wrote:
Maybe there could be something called like an "energy blade" which looks and acts almost like a lightsaber but isn't as refined due to the art of creating lightsabers being forgotten. It could be bulkier-looking and make a slightly less cool sound when you use it.

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I definitely go along with the fencing armor idea. Our attacks do sufficiently low damage that I think fencers have to use more specials on average (doing less damage). That means HAM really is at a premium (mind especially). I have experimented a bit with armor and find that it is not offering such a great trade off for how I fight.

I have all the knowledge of swords that you get from Shakespeare productions, but there are obviously some people who know something about the subject. I would like for visual purposes to have fencers use weapons that are like real fencing weapons--rapiers, foils etc. How would that kind of sword differ in how it causes damage? It would be nice to have something that was authentic too.

I also would love some gungan weapons, the club looking one in this linkwould be great!

www.starwars.com/databank/technology/gunganweaponry/index_bts.html

Foils were never really *weapons*. They are first mentioned historically during the reign of Louis the XIV, where they were used as a substitute for training inrapier , making it less dangerous to do so. The foil then followed a natural progression to a 'sport' weapon. Some historians believe that it actually never went through this evolution, and that it was a sport 'weapon' from the start.

I cringe every time someone mentions us using foils for weapons in the game....

The epee is a tadmore formidable as originallydeveloped in the 19th century, when dueling was illegal. It was slightly lighter than the rapier, but still designed for the "no rules" "I'm fighting this duel to win" type of fighting.(Which actually had, by this point,become (usually) a "whoever draws first blood" sort of situation) Otherwise,at this time, most 'swordplay' (as my Fencing Master fondly referred to it as ) had largely been replaced by stylized 'exhibition' type fighting, with all sorts of rules and regulations. Pistols were more common, and infinitely easier to learn to use- which really was what lead to the downfall of the swordsman. Not, as some believe, that they were more deadly. Moderns day epees however, are not what they once were.

Sabres are descendents of the cavalry sabre, which were used on horseback in the 18th and 19th centuries. These are also now 'sport' weapons, having made the transition in the mid-19th century by army-types.

Interestingly, in sport competition... the 'rules' parallel each weapon's history. The foil, a stylized, exhibition weapon- may only be used on the torso. The epee, with roots in dueling, and satisfying one's honor, may strike on any part of your opponent's body. The sabre, with roots as an officer's weapon while mounted on a horse, may only strike from the hips, up - and that includes, head, neck..etc. Thegoal being, to save the precious war horse that took YEARS to train and was *very* valuable.

Personally, I'd like to see more modern takes on these weapons- as mentioned before, by making the blades do energy/acid/poison/electric damage.

But if this isn't possible, rapiers are a must- Flamberge would beawesome (these were a one handed sword with a deadly wavy blade WAY cool looking) and small swords are an acceptable (but less formidible looking) substitute.

There are also, historically a lot of different types of curved swords that were quite lethal. We have that in the Rykk, but other options include theKICK ASS Viking laengsaex and the shorter sword- the scramsax. The Germans had a few as well... the only one I can recall is the Messer. (which means 'knife' in German).

Seena... who still thinks we need to bring our weapons "into the future"