"Multi-part sword?" Topic

So, watching Highlander and the Kurgen has a sword where the blade is in two parts that snap together like a whizz bang sniper rifle.

This is a bad idea right? Wouldn't that create a real weakness in the blade?

But hey, it *looks* awfully bad ass.

Nothing like the sword from "The Sword and the Sorcerer", that had three blades (two of which could be fired at your opponent) and a shortsword in the hilt…

Has the two-part sword blade idea ever been used for real life swords?

There is your answer…..

Nothing like the sword from "The Sword and the Sorcerer", that had three blades (two of which could be fired at your opponent) and a shortsword in the hilt…

that sword was so big the actor could barely wield it, still it's a neat idea to shoot a blade at someone

Any multi-part sword would be a bad idea. it would ruin the flexability of the blade, but then it is called fantasy for a reason!

It's a terrible idea – it has little or no structural strength and would snap at the first blow.
The film-makers obviously realised this; if you're handy with the pause button you will see that in the action sequences, there's no sign of the 'join line' which was clearly visible in the assembly sequence.

Yeah, but that's the only way he could carry it on the bus.

Maybe if it was made of new alloys and created in zero-g on a Tuesday during a massive solar storm at the height of the eclipse with a comet in the sky and blessed by a Cardinal then it would work.

The Qualta Blade from Farscape is more feasible. Or Sulu's Foldout Sword or a light saber. The genre's tech level allows it.

Actually, the problem with the Light Saber is they are using the wrong technique. Kenjutsu is based on a sword with one edge-Light Sabers are ALL edge. Better to use Chinese Dragon Sword technique but I digress.

A shorter court sword easily concealed in a trenchcoat with a custom hilt would have been better. Or a Gladius/Falchion or those short sabers used by Burmese/Thai movies.

Almost every sword is multi-part, but I'm not aware of any real ones with multi-part blades.

However, there probably were some somewhere in the India-SE Asia-China arc somewhere in history, that region was a hotbed of imbecilic melee weapon design.

-Kle.

@Skippy0001: So you're saying there's a chance?

Skippy0001 is right.

Forget the fancy-smanchy swords. The best sword for a swordfight is a gladius- and get close. Use it as a gutting tool from 1 foot away.

When I was in match fencing many years ago, our instructors always told us, "get close-- get close."

Check that: Blessed by a Female Cardinal…

The M16/M14 replacement should have a thumbhole stock with the thumbhole big enough for a handgrip. That way we could bring back sword-bayonets, reviving the bayonet fighting art and short sword fighting. I'm tired of these namby-pamby do-everything carbines that you can barely buttstroke a enemy with.

But that's just me.

When I was younger and thinner I took three years of Tang Su Do with kenjutsu training. Great for defining your 'space' that you can control. Great for understanding options in melee. Great for describing roleplay combat mechanics.

Traveller has the Cutlass. I considered that a catchall term for the huge varieties of edged weapons that are available in that milieu.

VSF to me is Sword, Shotgun and Soap Opera. In that order.

'What blade is in your scabbard'?-should be a TMP poll-arm.:)

Yes, bad idea to have the blade come in separate parts. But it does look cool, which was the point of the whole scene.

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