blasphemy! StG wars?

[lwd]

Personally I'm a rapier sort of guy...

I once did an analysis of the rapiers in the Wallace collection. The early ones at least tended to be about the same length and weight as hand and a half swords. Many also had a pomel designed for use with a second hand. Implication is either parrying very hard blows or delivering hard slashing blows or both. If you just want to thrust try the small sword or the estoc.

[phylo_roadking]

Yes, they were just an extrapolation of the late Medieval "arming sword" along the same line of evolution that the original broadsword had taken - longer blade, and designed for more grip and thus force...but also retaining the arming sword's diamond section (no fuller) blade section and long-taper point. But AS they got longer and heavier, they became more and more a primary weapon rather than the arming sword's "second side-arm" role, so had to be capable of parrying etc.

Anyway, they're not "light sabers", they're "light katanas" LMAO