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Quote from: Cindy on January 02, 2015, 02:47:47 AM

No seriously this place is just gonna be another one of the fuckin' anti-weeb echo-chambers that thinks a katana is made of god damn balsa wood and shatters as soon as it hits something that isn't skin or bamboo

Bunch of ignorant bitch bastards

>getting this mad
み けくす ぷれあせ たけす でも

catzilla i still don't understand your moon rumes

My keks please take them

dammit cat wy u do dis

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This is Cindy. Group meet Cindy. Cindy meet Group. Cindy spends too much time reading comments made by idiots on reddit who like to say Katanas are shit.

Technically speaking, they are.

Technically speaking if a weapon was actually absolute fucking garbage no one who sees regular combat would be retarded enough to use it. So whether they're shit is entirely up to whoever had to use one the most.

>Implying that something being shit at certain things means it's shit at everything

I'm assuming that anyone who's had to use it for years has had to use it in multiple ways.

Certain swords and certain weapons are designed for certain tasks that are needed to be overcome for that time. The Katana would not fare well against chainmail or steel plate. It also did not help the Japanese win WWII.

I don't. That's not even a proper comparison.

What comparison do you want? It's past 4am, I can't sleep, and I'm not a mind reader.

I don't want any comparisons. I want to sleep. I see what you're trying to get at but saying a sword isn't as good as a gun is basically saying that water is wet. No fucking shit.

Do you use a formation of men equipped with daggers to oppose a pike formation? No, you do not, unless you want your men to die but that's another issue.

Better?

Bro, iirc the katana was basically just a status symbol for officers in WW2. They weren't expected to actually use the thing. Kind of like how officers still carry mamelukes as part of their uniform in the US.

iirc they were used in combat, but not by every officer, just those that chose to use them. Pretty sure they were sometimes used in Banzai charges, but not sure on that. They weren't just for dress, at least from what I can remember.

Ok? People used bows and claymores in WW2 as well. Doesn't mean they were expected to though.

And if someone is doing a banzai charge it means they know they're out of options anyway and won't surrender due to cultural reasons.  If it wasn't a katana it would have been a bayonet.

Bow was only used once by that crazy mother fucking bad ass, and I don't think he ever used that claymore in combat.

Eh, don't think it was an out of options thing, they seriously considered it as a viable tactic for a while until they realized how horribly it kept back firing.

thinking about it, if somebody ever charged at me with a katana i wouldn't know what to do or think

Quote from: Kinder der Mörder on January 02, 2015, 12:11:37 PM

thinking about it, if somebody ever charged at me with a katana i wouldn't know what to do or think

A sword is a sword, if you don't have something to fight back with I'd say leg it <_<
Or for yanks scream SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED and just mow the eejit down with a minigun.

Well if it's a fat weeb then I'm afraid his rolls would just absorb the rounds and piss it off more >.>

thinking about it, if somebody ever charged at me with a katana i wouldn't know what to do or think

Well, chances are he's gonna slash wrong, so just wait for the wrist to roll and the sword to twist on impact and hit you with the flat instead of the edge. You may then precede to dump twenty one rounds of .40 smith and mall-cop into him.

Quote from: Kinder der Mörder on January 02, 2015, 12:11:37 PM

thinking about it, if somebody ever charged at me with a katana i wouldn't know what to do or think

Well, chances are he's gonna slash wrong, so just wait for the wrist to roll and the sword to twist on impact and hit you with the flat instead of the edge. You may then precede to dump twenty one rounds of .40 smith and mall-cop into him.

How bad do you have to be to fail at slashing with a katana? The things are designed for it. Edge alignment isn't that hard to understand.

I do not know of sword disarming techniques, but I figure you could just take an angle to their side to avoid the oncoming strike, right? Frankly the only other things I can think of are grabbing the back of the sword or trying to block with your forearms, which both sound stupid and painful.

Quote from: (っ◕‿◕)っ Ryle on January 02, 2015, 01:06:34 AM

i dont understand the appeal of a cantana

is it weebs that are obsessed with them or something

well to be fair a cantana would totally fuck up any unarmed person, lol

Yes, you can kill anyone with a stick if you really wanted to. However, in the world of swords katanas historically were shitily constructed from crap materials, most produced today are still shit, and those that aren't shit aren't that special.

They look cool and uneducated people are led to believe that all Katanas are god-like and can cut through anything as they are invincible from having the metal folded so many times.

I remember when some fag on #destiny was telling me katanas were weapons of mass destruction when I said longswords were better.

I come into this thread, only to see another Katana v all other swords argument, these never get old.

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Also can't tell if Cindy is being serious, half, or just fucking around.

She got mad and left because she refuses to pick up a Zweihander and stop being so damn casual.

Quote from: Assassin 11D7 on January 02, 2015, 03:27:11 AM

Certain weapons are better at certain things. Swords tend to be more wieldy then Maces, as the point of balance is closer to the hand, but Maces can break plate and chainmail armor, while swords are not nearly as effective. Yes, you can half-sword and aim for the joints or strike with the pommel, but there are better weapons for the job.

Brah, the wonderful thing about the longsword, great sword, and maybe some longer arming swords is that you can grab the motherfucking blade and beat the shit out of your opponent with the crossguard like a pick, and as long as your grip is tight and your hands don't slip, you can fucking wail on them for days.

But my oversized can-openers/smashers...

ty based Skallagrim for teaching me that originally.

>tfw each sword has its own strength and weaknesses